Posts Tagged ‘financial services’

No More IBM-Sun? – A flurry of news outlets are reporting the M&A talk broke down over the weekend. According to a Wall Street Journal report, supposed the talks broke down because Sun had a split board, with current CEO Jonathan Schwartz favoring the merger (even at IBM’s newly reduced price) and former CEO Scott [...]

Had an illuminating conversation with a financial services customer the other day. With the economy seemingly crumbling in front of our very eyes, the financial services sector is especially hurting. The problem is, projects (for the most part) don’t go away, and they are already operating with extremely lean teams in IT.
In this customer’s words: [...]