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HP-EDS combo makes General Motors 'uncomfortable'

HP commands one third of General Motors' $15bn annual technology budget, following its takeover of EDS. And GM doesn't like it. Ralph Szygenda, chief information officer at GM, told Bloomberg that the takeover made his company "somewhat uncomfortable. The question is, do I have too much in one bucket? Down deep, economics tells …

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Posted Friday 17th October 2008 09:15 GMT

Anton Ivanov

Is Iceland joining the Bulgarian Airbags, Football Fields and the Aircraft Carriers?

Happy

Is Iceland the new unit for financial loss? If so, elReg needs to reissue the "register" units table and the converstion factors for metric and imperial

Posted Friday 17th October 2008 09:38 GMT

dedmonst

what would you expect him to say?

Anyone who's taken "Vendor Management US style 101" knows you always make comments like this when something major happens with one of your key vendors - it keeps em on their toes and lets them know who's boss.

This is like reporting "customers want better IT for less" - stating the bleeding obvious

Posted Friday 17th October 2008 13:36 GMT

Anonymous Coward

could have held on to it.

Anonymous Coward

GM owned EDS for a stretch there back when government contracting appeared to be a license to print money, didn't it?

Posted Friday 17th October 2008 14:45 GMT

Mike Richards

Blimey

GM were in the economic crapper before HP got their hands on EDS. With them on board it'll be like the captain of the Titanic deciding to take another swing at the iceberg because they didn't quite hit it last time.

Posted Friday 17th October 2008 17:37 GMT

Bill

HP! Crap, no no no!

Pirate

I can't blame 'em really. HP has decent enough gear, but their service has been mediocre at best in the past. Also, they are the definition of standard when it comes to performance and capabilities. They have all the check marks, but when you really look at the features closely you see they really don't cut it, or work for that matter. HP will try to push their mistake hardware (SuperDumb anybody?) on GM and tell them that they can support their junk better than they can support the other guys stuff (like Solaris or AIX).

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