00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Bill Johnson) writes: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/22/michigan_sues_hp_for_upgrade_failure/ > Michigan failure.
remember HP had bought EDS: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=169924 originally founded by former IBM salesman who then created a mainframe services empire. Along the way, EDS was bought by GM to try and improve their IT position and then later spun off (before being acquired by HP) http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20121209-eds-sees-success-after-purchase-by-gm--but-at-a-cost.ece trivia: in 1990, GM had the C4 taskforce to look at completely remaking themself ... since they were planning on heavily leveraging IT technology, they invited representatives from technology companies to participate. They could clearly articulate what the foreign competition was doing right and the changes GM would have to make, but as the bailout this century shows they weren't able to make the necessary changes (one of the shortcomings of their operation they described was also true of the mainframe operation at the time ... so I would chide the mainframe representatives how could they expect to contribute). more trivia: congress had passed foreign import quotas to significantly reduce competition and greatly increase domestic profits supposedly that they would use the money to completely remake themselves. However in the early 80s there was a call for 100% unearned profit tax on the US industry since they were just pocketing the profit and continued business as usual (through the 1990 C4 taskforce up through the recent bailouts and possibly beyond, "remake" their business is 35 or so years old, and it hasn't been the case that they didn't know what they needed to do). In the mid-80s we had opportunity to talk to GM/EDS periodically. Then we were doing a presentation in Raleigh on "real" networking and happen to mention that the GM/EDS people mentioned that they were moving the company off SNA to x.25. The communication group executives immediately left the room ... and then came back and said they didn't care, GM/EDS had already spent their IBM communication budget for the year ... so it would be somebody else's problem in the future other trivia: when Perot left GM/EDS and founded Perot Systems, he brought in the former head of POK mainframe to be CEO. past posts mentioning C4-taskforce http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
