Patrick Thibodeau

Groups hoping to slow the migration of skilled jobs to low-wage countries say it will take a combination of actions affecting U.S. visa, trade policies and tax laws to stem the flow of jobs overseas.

Reacting to a top George W. Bush administration official

U.S. immigration officials may be just a week away from getting enough applications to fill the H-1B visa cap this year, shutting down a pipeline for companies that hire foreign high-tech workers.

Hewlett-Packard Co. Monday reinforced its Itanium strategy with new servers based on the Intel Corp. chip, part of the company's commitment to building an architecture around industry-standard technology and processes. But HP, which hopes to transition its users to Itanium, said it won't move them abruptly and released a new PA-RISC chip it said will significantly boost performance.

After a rough year of layoffs, lawsuits and lackluster revenue, Electronic Data Systems Corp. officials say the worse is behind them, and plan to grow the company by offering business transformation services led by a management team made up of ex-CIOs.

One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp.

The labour union representing a small but growing number of IBM Corp. employees is considering taking action against the company's reported plan to move nearly 5,000 jobs offshore, including asking employees to refuse to train their replacement workers.

U.S. IT workers are needed and encouraged to take jobs in Canada, said Keith Parsonage, director general of Industry Canada's Information and Communications Technologies branch. In a recent interview with Computerworld's Patrick Thibodeau, Parsonage discussed the opportunities and lifestyle that await IT workers in Canada.