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EPA suspends IBM from doing business with federal agencies

Started by farkinga · 7 months ago

RTFA: http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3453925
IBM and several of its employees have been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury on interactions between Environmental Protection Agency and IBM employees, a company spokesman said today.
The subpoenas, which were issued Mar ... Continue reading »

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  • This is sure to put a TON of pressure on IBM. In the style of Vonnegut's Ilium, I think our society will crumble if we have to go cold-turkey from our mainframe overlords.

    Part of IBM's deal is that they make it possible to outsource hardware management of computing resources. IBM can do things like watch your hardware for a failure, and then send out a tech to replace the component within the hour. It's expensive, but it obviously makes sense sometimes.

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