[Realism]

Made in the U.S.A........Buy HONDA.

[oceanview]

and EDS et al - will send that work right to India.

[RogueIsland]

If the quality of the work they get out of India is on a par with the digital excrement my firm has gotten out of those folks, this should be the final nail in GM's coffin.

[Tyche]

You know it was bound to happen...It almost seems as though they lost money just so they could move overseas..

[laker_dad]

That giant sucking sound that Ross spoke about was EDS sucking the life out of GM after they were acquired. I worked as a subcontractor in the GM building at the time. EDS was busy padding the IT departments with anybody they could find. There was very little work to do, so much time was wasted on rubber-band wars, long lunches to local bars (including the Windsor Ballet), etc. I came very close to going to work for EDS. Damn glad I didn't.

[ken5050]

If Microsoft ever designed a car.....(complete the sentence..)

[untrained skeptic]

GM has outsourced it's IT work to EDS and others for as long as I can remember.

This is not a new thing for GM. It's the way they have been doing business for decades.

It should also be noted that this is a Reuters article via Fox News, rather than something writen by reporters at Fox News.

[hubbubhubbub]

"General Motors Corp. (GM) said on Thursday it would outsource up to $15 billion of information technology work as it tries to cut costs and restructure operations."


Unless GM outsources the "management" of their IT, they're not going to realize any cost savings. Indeed, they will incurr a sizable cost just coordinating 5 different vendors' work.