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From: mqh9523@ritcv.UUCP (Michael Hojnowski)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on EDS
Message-ID: <9070@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 21:08:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 21:08:21 1985
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Reply-To: mqh9523@ritcv.UUCP (Mike Hojnowski)
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Keywords: EDS
Summary: I work for 'em.

<Mmmmm, tasty>

Someone asked if there are eny EDS'ers on the net.  Well, if no one
else will step forward, I suppose I can.  I work as a systems programmer
for EDS in Rochester NY.  Yes, I work on IBM's all day.  Please... no flames,
my friends give me all I can handle.

EDS is owned by GM.  As I understand it (I'm not much on reading the 
corporate blurbs), most GM employees who worked in GM datacenters
were offered an opportunity to transition into EDS.  EDS has traditionally
done business by building large Information Processing Centers (IPC's) and
running several accounts out of them.  I assume that GM hoped this approach
would be cheaper than running individual datacenters at each GM site.

EDS started, and is headquartered in Dallas.  They DO have a rather strict
dress code.  I am not required to drive a GM car  (I happen to drive a Ford).
At this point, I wouldn't drive a foreign car because I work at a GM site 
(Rochester Products (Carburators)).  Foreign cars have generally had short 
lifespans in that parking lot.  It seems to be a problem with the hourly 
people.  "Old" EDS'ers who work at IPC's haven't had those sorts of 
problems.

I'll answer any reasonable questions put to me, but don't ask me to post
"50 reasons why you should avoid EDS".  Obviously, if EDS were as terrible 
as some people make it out to be, I wouldn't work for them.  

[ The opinions expressed above are solely my own.  I am not a spokesperson
  for EDS, and please don't consider me one. ]

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