Ed, I'm talking companies that measure their profits in USD$ with 9 zeroes. I'm talking 100s of Terrabytes. I'm talking Disaster Recovery of 1000s of km.
There are some itsy bitsy accounts mixed in with the larger ones, but the shared resources, premises and infrastructure improves the costs of goods so that the outsourcer can take their margin and the customers are still better off. Bruce Hewson's example is an interesting one, where a number of company owned Data Centres around the world compete for each country's operations - perhaps it could be called near-sourcing. Ron > > I will have to semi agree with Ted on this one. I have seen success's > and failures. Usually the success's (IMO) are small potatoes type > companies. I don't think I can remember any "large" companies that > outsourcing really worked for any length of time. If I had to guess > why, I would say internal politics but it would be strictly a guess. > The political pressure is really intense at a few places I have seen. > I personally know a Senior VP type of an outsourcing firm and the > stories I hear would turn anyone's stomach. > > Ed > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
