it is simply a way to stop illegal immigration. If we get rid of all the
IT jobs in the USA then maybe most of the jobs now being performed by
illegals can now
be done Legal Americans.
Timothy Sipples wrote:
Google has a link to a cached copy of the Austin-American Statesman article
re: IBM winning a State of Texas IT outsourcing contract, but oddly enough
the newspaper's own Web site doesn't have the article.
The IT resources tally is quite interesting: 31 data centers, 16
mainframes, and "more than 7,000 servers at 1,300 locations...." That's
for 27 state agencies which, evidently, couldn't figure out how to pool IT
resources. (Hint: mainframes are quite useful.)
Does a state government, even one as big as Texas, actually need 31 data
centers and 7,000 servers scattered around 1,300 locations? If I were a
taxpayer in that state I'd be at least curious. What are all those data
centers and servers doing? Does anybody on IBM-MAIN work for an
organization with 31 (or more) data centers, to provide some context? It
seems most odd to me, even for state government.
Larry Olson, the CTO, says in the article that $1.2 billion in state IT
spending over 7 years will decline to "under $1 billion" with this
contract. Mike Gross, VP of the Texas State Employees Union, wants the
legislature to delay the deal and questions Olson's figures.
Personal opinion(s) only.
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Timothy Sipples
IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect
Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z
Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific
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