Imagine how many Americans could have been provided with jobs with this $863 million, but state bureaucracies are still doing business with IBM because they "believe" in IBM's mission to throw Americans out of work and hand their jobs to temporary foreign laborers.


IBM Destroys State of Texas $863 million Computer System


http://www.statesman.com/search/content ... 4data.html

Elections system pulled from IBM data center contract
Company's failures could have jeopardized 'fair, credible elections,' secretary of state's office says.
By Kate Alexander
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

IBM Corp.'s failure to protect state information under an $863 million data center consolidation contract has prompted the Texas secretary of state's office to pull its elections system from the project.

In August, the secretary of state got a "wake-up call" when a server crash led to a 13-day outage of the agency's business records filing system. It exposed serious weaknesses in IBM's ability to recover lost data, said secretary of state spokesman Randall Dillard.


http://techdirt.com/articles/20091105/0300066804.shtml

Texas Pulls Voting Reg System From IBM After Multimillion System Can't Recover Lost Data
from the that's-not-good dept

EFF points us to yet another massively expensive computer system that can't do some rather basic things. Apparently the state of Texas has pulled its election systems from an $863 million computer system project it had with IBM, after failures and glitches in the system took down the voter system and lost data, which was unrecoverable. State officials realized that if this had happened during an actual election, the state wouldn't have been able to verify new voters, in violation of federal law. So, it dumped IBM and set up its own system that (gasp) actually has multiple backups of the data. I guess things like redundant backups aren't included in the $863 million package.


IBM now outsources a large portion of its computer accounts to India

http://peacerebelgirl.wordpress.com/200 ... -to-india/

IBM Outsourcing Thousands of Jobs to India
March 26, 2009 · 29 Comments

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IBM draws criticism for job cuts, outsourcing

IBM’s reported plans to lay off thousands of U.S. workers and outsource many of those jobs to India, even as the company angles for billions in stimulus money, doesn’t sit well with employee rights advocates.

Business Week reports that IBM’s workforce increased from 386,558 in 2007 to 398,000 at the end of 2008.

IBM employees are being dealt a double blow, said Lee Conrad, national coordinator for Alliance@IBM, a pro-union group that has been fighting IBM’s outsourcing for years.

“We’re outraged that jobs cuts are happening in the U.S. and the work is being shifted offshore,â€