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Huh? EDS still holds this contract? I remember EDS lost a large ($1bn+) contract 8 or 9 years ago when it botched up a PC refresh so badly that by the time they
by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Huh? EDS still holds this contract? I remember EDS lost a large ($1bn+) contract 8 or 9 years ago when it botched up a PC refresh so badly that by the time they started installing new desktops, they were 6-7 years old. I don't fully blame EDS, having interned there a long time ago, they're just a huge inefficient corporation hired by a larger, more inefficient government.
- niels_olson 16y agoRoss Perot was was the Honor Board Chairman at the Naval Academy when he graduated in 1954. EDS has been providing data admin services to the Navy since he founded the company. Those ventures are what made him the billions to fund his presidential campaign. EDS is lashed to the Navy with steel wires.
- michaelhalligan 16y agoRoss had already left EDS before I started there, and I started there a lifetime ago, though I've met both Ross Sr. & Jr. through my father's work at Perot Systems (now part of Dell). When I was a 14 year old kid interning there, I didn't quite understand why people paid EDS $500/hour to do IT work. Now that I'm a 31 year old entrepreneur, I now understand why people pay EDS $500/hour to do IT work. In the truest sense of the term, it's ignorance.
- iuhjytgfbnjhmk 16y agoAnderson balls up a contract, so you award the next one to EDS, they balls up and you give the next one to CapGemini. When they balls up you give the next contract to Anderson... See - there is genuine competition for contracts.
- michaelhalligan 16y agoI had a friend who was working for a small local SF consulting shop making $75/hour. The consulting shop was getting paid $150/hour. They got the job through a contract recruiting firm that got paid $200/hour, and EDS was getting paid something like $400/hour, all to do some crystal reporting work. It was quite bizarre.