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Originally Posted by KC911
One of the reasons I "retired" back in '08...that POS outfit called EDS (the Motormeister of the IT world) was chosen as the outsource provider as executives dismantled my co. They were gonna be sucked up by HP, and I was just burned out on corporate bs like that after living it for 25 years. Could have kept my salary, etc. but I'd had enough so I walked....naw, I happily ran away  . HP was once a great tech company with great products....no mas  . They've since broken that POS off from the rest...
Legion, I read your other thread about M&A...didn't comment though...I lived it for 25 years...you were spot on . |
And here I thought that Computer Associates was the Motormeister of the IT world.
(I've never dealt with EDS myself. I have dealt with CA.)
My current favorite is dealing with startup vendors that promise us the moon and deliver--almost nothing. (And the executives that believe their completely unfounded sales pitches.) I differentiate them from older vendors that do the same because the startups honestly believe they can deliver. I have one right now where the vendor told us we'd be fully implemented by January 2017. (I told executives it was never going to happen, they told me to stop being a pessimist). It's almost a year later and we have 8 barely-working buggy prototypes. There was no way they could develop the ground-breaking software and build the hardware in 6 months for the promised rollout.
