Oh dear! It seems that EDS really are the flavour of the decade. I
presume they were not in charge of levee maintenance in Lake Orleans.
And more:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Ursula Huws, Analytica wrote:
> The $350m outsourcing deal with EDS to standardise more than 40,000 PCs
on
> Microsoft Windows and Office 2003 is also under review by senior
executives
> at the high street banking giant, with one insider claiming the project
is
> in complete "disarray".
> But despite speculation that Barclays will walk away from the seven-year
> desktop outsourcing deal, silicon.com understands from other sources
close
> to the situation that EDS will not be ditched and the restructured deal
will
> actually see the scope of the EDS contract extended.
Hmm. A few years ago a Well Known High St Bank - you know the one that
gives you the telephone number of it's branches - updated it WinNT
network. Not only were network disks lost but also the C: drives in some
cases.
There were about 30,000 such machines - ATMs also run windows software -
and I always wondered whether it was 32768 by any chance ... you know a
bit of legacy 2 byte arithmetic left in from DOS???
Anyway the bank was sufficiently big to insist on a visit by the some
people from Redmond.
Those of us who use reliable, open source, maintainable operating systems
that run 24x7 (my mail server has been for 2033 days now without a reboot)
can only stand by and wait for the crash. But then it cost me all of £800
in 1994.
Pip pip
John
John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple
Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler"
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