Patrick Thibodeau

Rapidly growing India-based IT services providers are adding sophisticated consulting services to their operations in an effort to compete directly with the major U.S. IT consulting firms. And for their part, U.S. services firms are expanding operations in India and elsewhere to reduce the cost of IT services by shifting more work overseas.

Ask a group of Canadian CIOs if they think U.S. IT workers are overpaid. After the laughter dies down, there will be a lot of affirmative head-nodding.

Many grid computing users are finding that the key challenge they're facing isn't implementing the technology. It's figuring out how to pay for it.

Forrester Research Inc. says the number of jobs moving offshore is accelerating in the short term, and it now expects that 830,000 jobs will move offshore by the end of 2005.

Ford Motor Co. estimates that its maintenance and support costs for office printing are in the range of US$40 million to US$50 million. But that's only an estimate. While Ford knows how many PCs it has

In a turnabout forced by pressure from HP e3000 users, Hewlett-Packard Co. has reopened the possibility of enabling users to convert existing HP 9000 hardware into e3000 systems that run the propriety MPE operating system and its applications.

United India Insurance Co. (UIIC) has contracted for Sun Microsystems Inc. to equip 10,000 users at the Indian insurance provider with the StarOffice 7...

To thrive in today's workforce, IT professionals will need a mix of industry-specific skills and a multidisciplinary background as more programming and coding work is moved offshore.