Rick Perry tells IBM to talk to the hand

[j_koch]

I know I have posted / bitched in person about the stupidity and frustration I have incurred due to the State of Texas HB1516 that outsourced the management of the datacenters (servers) owned by the vast majority of state agencies to IBM Global Services.  This almost $1Billion contract was supposed to save the state money over 7 years, but has been

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[billb23]

How to you get a contract for $1Billion, fail to backup servers and lose 8 MONTHS of data? 8 hours of data maybe, but 8 months? That is ridiculous.

[j_koch]

the word is getting out of Texas now and is hitting IT trade magazines...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Texas-Hooks-IBM/
http://www.govtech.com/articles/425682
http://www.govtech.com/gt/426998

[j_koch]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/10/29/1029ibm.html

[j_koch]

http://kut.org/items/show/14530

[j_koch]

its only gotten worse for IBM in the past few weeks.
Now TX is planning their exit strategy...

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/11/07/1107ibm.html