Inside Wal-Mart IT 409
prostoalex writes "Information Week magazine takes a look at Wal-Mart's IT infrastructure. Wal-Mart's yearly global sales are quoted at more than 250 billion dollars, their IT spending is less than 1% of that. At the same time, the company manages to pursue new venues in optimizing retail with the wonders of technology. And what about outsourcing IT for the sake of optimization? 'We'd be nuts to outsource,' a top IT executive at Wal-Mart replies."
Obligatory reference to fictional competitors (Score:5, Funny)
Shop smart, shop S-Mart
Nutty Butty (Score:5, Funny)
eeeeevil (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory reference to fictional competitors (Score:3, Funny)
Why be suprised?-Unsuprising. (Score:1, Funny)
Yes! I find not getting fired very appealing.
Re:Linux? (Score:2, Funny)
Largest retailer on the planet? I'm thinking that somebody might have mentioned it to them...
From their business model its clear they value how much things cost...
And doesn't *not* choosing open source say something?
Re:one of my friends works there (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Won't outsource IT but outsource manufacturing (Score:1, Funny)
Ah well (Score:5, Funny)
Re:one of my friends works there (Score:5, Funny)
(1) At "bedtime", go into the bathroom and make it sound like you're giving birth to triplets. Flush the toilet like 10 times. When "finished", put some kind of horriffic ass-stink in the bathroom -- like they used to sell at gag stores. Walk out of the bathroom as if nothing happened.
(2) Figure a way to wake up before your roomie. Have/fake a massive hard-on beneath the sheet, and when you see rommie stir, say "Morning, $roomie" making sure they see you're sporting wood. Take this further by pretending to fanatically jack off as they get up. If/when they make a nosie, pretend you were sleeping (most Slashdotters should remember how this works from home/dorms).
(3) Always come out of the shower stark naked. Don't get dressed right away. Hem and haw about it. A further option is to point to inner thigh or ass crack and ask about "bump" or "sore". Other questions -- "How's your daughter doing?" "I saw your wife the other day." "Do you think I'm fat?" Bonus points for erection.
(4) Try to plant sick porn (anything harder than Hustler) in traveling companion's luggage. "Honey, can you unpack my suitcase?" Bonus for gay/fetish porn.
obligatory pedantic correction (Score:3, Funny)
It's building on *sand* that proverbially leads to danger.
Perhaps you were thinking of "feet of clay", which is a metaphor about virtue, not prudence.
Join usssss... (Score:3, Funny)
buzzword score - 76 (Score:5, Funny)
supply chain management: +15%
primary differentiator +12%
competent IT department: +35%
Try to work in "leverage," "enterprise class" and
"java" next time, ok?
Inside Walmart IT (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Won't outsource IT but outsource manufacturing (Score:4, Funny)
Re:one of my friends works there (Score:3, Funny)