On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:55:56 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>AP had a story about this IBM Texas outsourcing contract today (or maybe >yesterday, depending on time zone). The wire story said that the 31 data >centers will collapse into 2. It does appear Texas agencies will learn to >get along and work together better. (I hope.) There were also some comments >in the article that Texas will greatly enhance security and DR capabilities >by assuring that their focused efforts on two data centers will result in a >higher quality operation. Makes sense to me. [snip....] > >- - - - - >Timothy Sipples >IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect The Houston Chronicle (my local paper) has an article today about this outsourcing project here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4365995.html Looks like it could be a good deal for the State of Texas. The only problem I can see is that one of the two mega-data centers will be in San Anglo, TX; which is out in the middle of nowhere in West Texas.....;-) DJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
