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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »January 20, 2006 — CIO —
Today, a Hewlett-Packard source that requested anonymity squashed recent rumors about a possible acquisition of Computer Science Corp. (CSC), CNET reports.
CSC, an IT consultancy, has been named as a potential acquisition target by The Blackstone Group, and HP allegedly showed interest in purchasing a minority stake in the in CSC, according to various media reports released in early January.
"CSC has occasionally come up from time to time as a potential acquisition, but it’s nothing that we ever seriously pursued and nothing we were in talks with recently," the anonymous source said, according to CNET.
HP is no fresh fish in the acquisition game. In 2001, the company was in talks with PricewaterhouseCoopers to acquire the firm for $18 billion in cash and stock, but the deal fell through due to disagreements concerning the pricing structure and the partnership in general. Two years later, PricewaterhouseCoopers sold its consulting division to HP’s biggest rival, IBM.
In the past, both HP and CSC have declined comment on a potential acquisition.
--Al Sacco