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EDS: The single point of failure
Talkback It's understandable that people and the meida are quick to jump on the bandwagon of EDS's unsuccessful ventures and to some extent, in fact to all extent, they have every right to do so. I work for EDS and currently work on the DWP project.
[November 29, 2004, 16:11]
EDS backtracks on 'strategically important' Linux
Talkback It's in EDS' and everyone else's best interest to see a mixed environment with Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX all having minority stakes in the market. Quite right. That's the situation where innovation truly flourishes!
[March 24, 2005, 9:47]
EDS took year to notice loss of prison-staff data
News A Ministry of Justice investigation has found that EDS lost track of data on prison staff a year before the breach was noticed. Thereafter EDS failed to take adequate measures to track or record the location of the hard drive when it was...
[November 24, 2008, 10:08]
EDS: The single point of failure
Talkback Good Journalism requires balance, this article is totally biased, just to have a swing at EDS. There is no mention of all the Government Projects EDS have delivered successfully for example for the Inland Revenue for 10 years, or non government for...
[November 30, 2004, 9:31]
EDS backtracks on 'strategically important' Linux
Talkback "Our next generation hosting services are based on leading-edge EDS Agility Alliance partner technologies that use industry-recognised operating systems. What a nice way to say "sorry that we promote only what our partners had to offer"
[March 28, 2005, 22:05]
EDS claims world's first .Net online banking solution
News EDS claims that it has built the world's first Internet banking solution using .Net development architecture. According to Microsoft, the EDS team took just under four months to complete the project. Aside from EDS's claims that the project is a...
[August 15, 2002, 11:57]
EDS says it was a victim
News For a company as huge as EDS, this little fiasco isn't that big of a deal. EDS, according to company officials, was merely serving as the coordinator for what the thieves called "a highly sensitive voice-recognition project for NATO".
[March 10, 2000, 10:17]
EDS announces massive job cuts
Talkback I was a senior technician at Motorola when they outsourced the IT department to EDS. When your company outsources to EDS you now have a COW - Company Owned Workstation and the desktop is locked down to a standard configuration and can not be changed.
[November 30, 2004, 15:41]
EDS turns to marketing guru
News Zyman, the former marketing chief at Coca-Cola, and his Atlanta-based company, Zyman Group, will be charged with helping EDS rebound from a tumultuous year that included layoffs, a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and turnover...
[December 24, 2003, 10:35]
EDS expands rented-software portfolio
News Through the new agreement, EDS Web-hosting customers can access Maxamine software to do such things as check to see that personal information from users isn't being leaked inadvertently to third parties and that their Web sites meet standards for...
[July 18, 2003, 11:24]
EDS gives HP services and cloud solution
Blog When HP bought EDS for $13.9bn in may most people understood that HP needed to buy a services company. Any doubts about the sale centred on a simple question: what was HP going to do with EDS? Whenever you asked a HP executive about how they would...
[December 11, 2008, 12:26]
HP, EDS clients advised to review contracts
News HP and EDS customers should look at renegotiating existing contracts to push for price reductions and improved services following the $13.9bn (£7bn) deal between the two outsourcing giants. Outsourcing consultants and advisers have said HP's...
[May 22, 2008, 9:13]
EDS and Thames Valley University link up for training
News EDS and Thames Valley University (TVU) have started an initiative aimed at giving staff working towards National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) a chance to also earn a related college degree. EDS Modern Apprentices train in one of three strands...
[March 10, 2003, 17:40]
EDS tests security update tool
News Information technology services giant EDS said the offering is part of a broader array of desktop computer services requiring little human intervention. The patch management piece is now in pilot testing and will be available generally by the...
[July 15, 2004, 8:00]
EDS Launches Mobile Information Protection With NetApp Inside Distributed Backup Solution
White Papers EDS is the most experienced outsourcing services company in the world. Following the success of an "On-demand" storage offering, EDS wanted to expand into a new market segment: managed backup and recovery services for PCs and related mobile devices...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
EDS threatened with legal action over £51m tax fiasco
News The Inland Revenue is threatening to drag EDS through the courts unless compensation is agreed for overpayments that resulted from problems with the new tax credit IT system. A software error on the EDS-designed tax credits IT system resulted in...
[June 22, 2005, 9:35]
EDS 'volunteers' cash for benefits mess
News IT services company EDS has "volunteered" to make a "contribution" to Kingston Borough Council after the council warned that unless it met its contractual obligations to pay residents' benefits on time, it would be sacked.
[January 15, 1999, 9:41]
EDS: The single point of failure
Talkback EDS takes on the most troublesome accounts that other big IT companies will not even bid on and has alot of success with them, but the media and everyone else seems to have it in for EDS. Without EDS and free competition we would all suffer.
[November 29, 2004, 21:35]
EDS investigations revealed
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has investigated IT supplier EDS four times over the past three years, a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request has revealed. The Sunday Times newspaper had submitted the FoI requests, targeting EDS as it...
[February 16, 2005, 11:40]
EDS hints at broader redundancies
News EDS has been struggling for some time to improve its competitive position. We may reduce our work force by more than 2 percent in connection with our ongoing transformation efforts," EDS said in a regulatory filing Monday.
[August 27, 2003, 9:20]
