* How GM saved a billion dollars * Cisco lands large VoIP deal with Boeing * Key Microsoft patch tools delayed again * Nortel predicts '03 restatement will wipe out profit * Today on Layer 8
In eight years General Motors has managed to trim a cool billion from its annual IT budget, mainly through efforts to consolidate systems and standardize equipment across a very diverse organization. I recently had a great interview with Tony Scott, CTO for GM’s Information Systems & Services group, where he told me more about how GM did it. Here’s the Q&A. How GM saved a billion dollars http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/071204yourtakegm.html?net
In eight years General Motors has managed to trim a cool billion from its annual IT budget, mainly through efforts to consolidate systems and standardize equipment across a very diverse organization. I recently had a great interview with Tony Scott, CTO for GM’s Information Systems & Services group, where he told me more about how GM did it. Here’s the Q&A.
How GM saved a billion dollars
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/071204yourtakegm.html?net
Cisco lands large VoIP deal with Boeing
Boeing’s VoIP effort is taking off, and the wind beneath its wings is Cisco. Cisco’s IP telephony products are going to be rolled out to 150,000 employees in 48 states and 70 countries.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0713cisboeing.html?net
Key Microsoft patch tools delayed again
Microsoft said Monday that the ship date for two of the key components in its lineup of patch management tools has slipped again, this time into the first half of 2005.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0713wuspatch.html?net
Nortel predicts ’03 restatement will wipe out profit
Nortel Tuesday predicted that a restatement of its 2003 financial results would substantially wipe out all of its net earnings for the year, with one-third of the reductions affecting the second half of the year.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0714nortepredi.html?net
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