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Unisys Gets DHS Contract Worth Up to $750 million 119

Posted by samzenpus from the sign-on-the-dotted-line dept.
feamsr00 writes "In an affirmation of its business relationship with Unisys Corp., the Department of Homeland Security awarded the Blue Bell firm a "bridge" contract worth up to $750 million. Some controversy erupted in the fall after it was reported that the government was auditing a Unisys contract because the company had possibly overbilled the Transportation Security Administration by as much as 171,000 hours of labor and overtime. TSA is a division of the Homeland Security department. Unisys is also to upgrade the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters facility in Washington."
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  • Thank God for the Government's Incompetence ... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:11PM (#14397612)
    It's the only thing preventing our complete loss of freedoms.
    • At least if you're a big campaign donor with corporate conections.

  • pardon me? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Combas ( 776699 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:13PM (#14397621) Homepage

    Man I wish I was in security right now.

    I just find it amazing how security experts are getting paid such big bucks yet according to recent audits show they arent really making things all that much safer.

    • Re:pardon me? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by biocute ( 936687 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:16PM (#14397638)
      They don't have to make things much safer, they only have to make people feel that things are much safer now.
      • They don't have to make things much safer, they only have to make people feel that things are much safer now.

        Reminds me of the BASF commercial. "we don't make the things, we make them better.."

        Being that they can't make things much safer, I would guess that is all they have to do.

        Now remind me the job of the press? Here are the current "headlines" on CNN. I could not make this up.

        National

        Abramoff pleads guilty in casino case
        Unable to produce visa, teen is jailed
        Police: Pups get si

    • Re:pardon me? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by SilverspurG ( 844751 ) * on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:37PM (#14397731) Homepage Journal
      Don't be so certain the experts are getting paid big bucks. It's likely the vast majority of this money will be lost in planning, overhead, and infrastructure--the CEO, the VPs, and the executive board. If any jobs are created for it there will be two middle managers and six entry level desk clerks. That's what $750 million buys for the taxpayers.
    • . . .audits show they arent really making things all that much safer.

      Well, D'oh. They really can't you know?

      The only real, practical affect they can have is to put as at considerably more danger from them.

      Now be a good boy, take off your shoes, drop your pants and spread your checks, for your own safety.

      KFG

    • Re:pardon me? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by ClamIAm ( 926466 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:53PM (#14397789)
      Just because they're getting tons of contracts doesn't mean their suggestions are being put into production. I'm sure more than one security expert has said "get rid of this app" or recommended some better method, and then was either refused or the idea was abandoned after two weeks because it was "too hard".

    • Re:pardon me? (Score:4, Interesting)

      by university chica ( 729309 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @10:28PM (#14397965)
      I work for TSA. We really don't get paid that well, and our overtime and staffing have been cut drastically. Maybe if we weren't understaffed by almost 30% of our federally allotted screeners and prohibited from doing overtime, security would be better.

  • that's great. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by User 956 ( 568564 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:15PM (#14397637) Homepage
    It makes me feel much better, considering they cut the CyberSecurity budget to $16 million [usatoday.com].

    • Re:that's great. (Score:5, Funny)

      by aywwts4 ( 610966 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:46PM (#14397766)
      Dont worry, once you see the heaps of giant flatscreen monitors and really cool custom "Terrortracking" GUIs just flashing random information on the screens faster than anyone could processs the information you will feel much safer. Oh and its all going to make cool Beeps and Boops, alienware is supplying the cases, and Dont let me forget to mention the tinted glass walls everywhere and blue and red gelled accent lighting, oh, and the lasers!

      I mean, atleast, if its anything like TV.

      • Re:that's great. (Score:3, Interesting)

        by hey! ( 33014 )
        Unfortunately, it's not just TV. I had a client that built an ops center pretty much like that to impress federal clients. They had a nice conference room that featured a huge window with power driven blinds that can raised dramatically at the push of the button to reveal the ops center with its rows of computers and large projection screen.

        None of this was necesssary in the least. They could have operated without an ops center and with a projector in the conference room. In fact Ops wasn't used on a reg

        • Isn't that the sort of crap Enron did?

          I worked in an Ops Center for a traffic control center... they had huge plasma screens to watch their soap operas. Stunning...
      • I mean, atleast, if its anything like TV

        Sadly, it's not just television.

        One of our labs now has multiple plasmas that were purchased so the operators could "view activity of several machines simultaneously". Nevermind that the resolution of the plasmas allows only for the at-a-glance viewing of three or four machines and have to be zoomed to a specific box for actual study (still, at an unacceptable resolution). More importantly, ignore that the same amount of money burned on the plasmas and switchboxes c

    • Re:that's great. (Score:3, Informative)

      by ActMatrix ( 246577 )
      Read the article more closely, the RESEARCH budget got cut to $16 million. This has been misquoted or misunderstood by countless Slashdot posters. As a security consultant in the DC metro area, I can assure you that DHS spends far more than $16 million on IT security.
    • Dude, how long is it going to take you to figure out that you're wrong? This is the second or third time that I've seen you post that link and it's pretty clear that it doesn't say what you seem to think that it says.

      -h-
  • http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pr o&ddlC=59 [publicintegrity.org]
    Does Unisys actually make any innovative products or provide useful services, or do they just drain money from corporations and governments run by foolish PHBs (Pointy Haired (Bosses || Bureaucrats))?

  • I work for Unisys.... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:22PM (#14397661)
    Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.

    Reading a story about 'us' overbilling, generally being corrupt is a bit of a non event. Breaks my fucking heart to see some of the shit that goes on with middle and upper management, coming into the office every day means giving up a bit (read: a lot) of self respect, unfortunately I've got bills to pay :(

  • DHS Windows upgrade (Score:5, Funny)

    by SpaceLifeForm ( 228190 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:33PM (#14397710)
    Unisys is also to upgrade the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters facility in Washington.

    WMF patch rollout Tuesday.

  • Unisys! Ah, the memories.... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by imperious_rex ( 845595 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:35PM (#14397721)
    It's nice to know Unisys's heart-warming corporate culture hasn't changed over the past few years. Ah yes, I remember well the days of the great GIF Patent Shakedown [mit.edu] indeed! Bastards.

  • I wonder (Score:5, Funny)

    by Comatose51 ( 687974 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:49PM (#14397776) Homepage
    the Department of Homeland Security awarded the Blue Bell firm a "bridge" contract worth up to $750 million

    Does this "bridge" contract involve the sale of a bridge somewhere in New York City to someone?

    • I don't want to know about the Verrazano-Unisys Bridge. Don't even think about the George Unisys Bridge either.

      (I might think about the GIF Bronx Expressway though, if it reduces the traffic.)

  • Hell of an ROI (Score:2, Insightful)

    by cprincipe ( 100684 )
    What is that, like 100000 per cent?

    http://www.opensecrets.org/softmoney/softcomp1.asp ?txtName=unisys [opensecrets.org]

  • Cronyism is the end result of democracy (Score:4, Insightful)

    by dada21 ( 163177 ) * <adam.dada@gmail.com> on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:50PM (#14397780) Homepage Journal
    When 3 people give up rights to 1 person, it is pretty easy control. When we have just 800 nationally elected officials handling the rights of 300 million, what do you expect? That is 375,000:1 ratio or so (counting underage too).

    Here's the root of the problem: abuse of Constitutional authorized power combined with what is NOT voter apathy but citizen time value. A billion dollars is only $1 per day per citizen: you and I are not going to fight tooth and nail to get rid of a billion dollar contract. Yet a small group of 5 CxO's from Unisys will. Money is not the problem, the corrupt political structure of the federal government is.

    Voting is not going to change the structure: those 5 CxO's will happily work with whoever is in power. We've already given UP those powers, there is no taken them back.

    If you want to see changes, do it with your life as I did. Take your money out of the stock market and 401Ks and put it into your own business or local businesses you have control of (and actually profit from!). Take your money out of the bank and pay off all your debt -- whatever is left over is perfectly safe in gold or silver. Talk to your employer and see if you can become a contractor and find ways to write-off as much as possible under the tax code. Don't take loans, don't have a credit card, don't be concerned with social security and medicare. You can do it on your own, and you can stop supporting the monsters in office.

    Unisys is not the bad guy here: they are taking advantage of the system the voters put in place.

    • Re:Cronyism is the end result of democracy (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      "Unisys is not the bad guy here: they are taking advantage of the system the voters put in place."

      In the same sense that the guy putting a brick through your window and robbing you blind isn't the bad guy, he's just taking advantage of your inadequate security measures.

      Don't kid yourself sir, Unisys, the guys who cut my paycheque every month, are indeed a bunch of bad guys.
      • Actually, I agree with you based on principal: anyone who takes advantage of bad laws is evil -- but that still doesn't end the debate of those who support the "will of the majority." Remember, it is the majority who is OK with Congress and their all-encompassing powers.
    • I do find it convenient to keep a little money in the bank and a single, low limit credit card for dealing with things like ordering out of print books through Amazon or getting a motel room. Just don't carry debt. A man who owns himself is rich.

      And learn some skills that allow you to care of yourself. Spinning, weaving and knitting are a good start and rather meditative.

      KFG

    • Idiot (Score:3, Insightful)

      by everphilski ( 877346 )
      If you want to see changes, do it with your life as I did. Take your money out of the stock market and 401KsIf you are stupid enough to follow his advice you deserve what you get. While I agree that social security and medicare will not be there for me (I am 23) despite the fact I pay into these programs, not having investments for your future beyond retirement is idiotic. Gold is not the answer. If you don't trust stocks, invest your 401k's in bonds (and lose out on returns... but have the warm fuzzies kno

      • Re:Idiot (Score:4, Interesting)

        by dada21 ( 163177 ) * <adam.dada@gmail.com> on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @11:18PM (#14398190) Homepage Journal
        If you are stupid enough to follow his advice you deserve what you get.

        Correct. True wealth without initiating force against anyone else.

        not having investments for your future beyond retirement is idiotic.

        I have investments and I recommend everyone invest in their own businesses or the businesses of those they know and trust. My investments make between 20% and 50% a year on average -- as a profit payment (dividend). I still have growing equity above and beyond.

        If you don't trust stocks, invest your 401k's in bonds (and lose out on returns... but have the warm fuzzies knowing you didn't take a risk).

        Bonds have never kept up with the true cost of living increase. Prices go up because of currency inflation by the central banks -- in a free market prices go down because the money supply is fixed. I would never invest in bonds, they're the true suckers' investment.

        I have my finances worked out such that I will be able to retire early and live off the interest, minus inflation - leaving an estate to donate as I see fit and money to pass on to my children when I feel they are ready upon my death.

        If you trust the government to keep the dollar solid. I don't. If I'm wrong, the worst that happens is what? My gold is worthless? I don't see that happening, as gold has been relatively stable for thousands of years. If you're wrong, what can happen? Massive debt, worthless stocks and no savings.

        I profited well off of my 401k's and stocks. The lifetime trend of the stock market is about 9% a year.

        No, you don't. You profit off of buying a stock at a sucker's price, never earning a dividend (which is true profit of the company) and hoping you can sell it off to some sucker at a higher sucker's price. Even factoring in the money you're "profiting" in, you're barely keeping up with true consumer inflation! 9% annually? The Federal Reserve is currently printing 10-15% inflationary dollars annually, which will eventually cause prices to rise by that figure once the dollars return to the common market. My investments in local businesses offer me a TRUE profit plus the increase in share prices. Your investments offer you no dividend, right?

        You can't do much better than that. Small companies are hit and miss. Hit and do a lot better, miss and lose it all. (Not to mention harder to get your money out if an emergency comes up)

        I lose on 1 out of 10 companies, usually my entire investment. On the 9 out of 10 that don't fail, I make 20-50% annually. I double my money as a profit in 2-4 years, and I still own the company. Even factoring in the 100% loss on the failed investments, I double my money in approximately 5.5 years and I still retain control. Anyone can do this, and it doesn't require a stock broker who is making money on you if you win or if you lose.

        On top of all that, the stock market is experiencing what the Austrians have been talking about for 2 decades: an increased valuation due to the easy credit and currency counterfeiting of the central bank. Greenspan prints new money and sends it out at 1-4% interest. The lemmings get this money as increased wages and easy loans. The lemming sees this money at 4% can make him 9% in the market, so he invests there. Millions of other lemmings do the same, causing a supply shortage based on the increased demand that the Federal Reserve created -- causing the stock prices to go up. Artificial price increase.

        Then the market crashes, so the Board drops interest rates lower and counterfeits more new money (legally). This gives the lemmings even more money at a lower interest rate, and what do they see now? Houses are going up 10% annually! Said lemmings then invest in the housing markets, hoping to be the "flip it!" millionaire by 40. Except houses are depreciating assets, just like cars and clothes and food. Houses need maintenance, new houses replace old ones -- houses go down in price in a free market. Why did our hous
        • > Here's a clue: real wealth comes from real savings.
          > Federal manipulation of currency inflation and interest rates makes dollar savings worthless.
          > Savings of any form in the US dollar will get you exactly that. No worth.

          While I'd say your investment in gold is a bit risky - it seems like gold-prices have been rising continously for almost 6 years now (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&s id=au0kxz2v7Sm8 [bloomberg.com]), but gold can de-valuate quickly and then nobody wants to buy it - I'd also
        • If you trust the government to keep the dollar solid. I don't. If I'm wrong, the worst that happens is what? My gold is worthless? I don't see that happening, as gold has been relatively stable for thousands of years. If you're wrong, what can happen? Massive debt, worthless stocks and no savings.

          If you want an investment that's been around for a while, try the trio of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. That's been a good investment every since life began.

          • Forget about plastics, the one word you need to remember is "cheeseburger".
            • Forget about plastics, the one word you need to remember is "cheeseburger".
              I had the unpleasant experience of eating a cheeseburger happy meal yesterday. Based on that reintroduction to them, I am quite certain the cheese was plastic, and I think maybe the meat was, too.
              • Cheeseburger inflation is not a pretty thing. Remember that happy meals are "fiat food". Your kids start whining if they don't get happy meal toys.
        • Just invest in Gold so the price of your gold goes up and you hate the goverment, we understand that now (and from all the other posts).

          Reading your makes me feel like I am at some sort of Dale Carnegie training class. This post is about the wonders (and ridiculousness) of Unisys and government contracts, if you please...
        • An interesting analysis, but I'm not sure I agree with your lack of faith in currency markets. Oh, the US dollar is going to have problems, I have no doubt, and gold is a decent place to park your wealth, but a lot of the problems with the dollar are already priced in.

          Greenspan prints new money and sends it out at 1-4% interest. The lemmings get this money as increased wages and easy loans. The lemming sees this money at 4% can make him 9% in the market, so he invests there. Millions of other lemmings do
        • Bonds are for suckers and Gold is "stable". Yo... idiot... look at the history of the price of an ounce of gold for christ's sake, esp. the last 30 years. And as far as commidity pricing being immune to corruption, look no further than the Bass' brothers play on the silver market in the early 80's.

          • I thought it was the Hunt brothers... Yup, google confirms (although it also confirms 477 cases of mistaken identity w/r/t bass brothers and silver market).

            Wow... not that the Bass Brothers aren't noteworthy.... according to UTWatch [utwatch.org], the Bass Brothers are notorious for their lengthy ties to Bush Sr and GW Bush, attempts to whiten up the Yale classics curriculum, and for (!) adding alcohol and tobacco ads to state park flyers. Oh, and their bankrolling Harken at a key moment in GBush Sr's involvement there,
            • The Hunt brothers fiasco was due entirely to people looking at silver as an investment, not as a store of wealth. They didn't corner the market, they cornered the investors and fooled them into chasing the next Big Thing. This is not what I do -- I research heavily the production manipulations, the central bank manipulations, the mining manipulations, the jeweler manipulations and the investor manipulations and figure out what I believe is a fair price based on the need and use of a metal.

              For me, metal pr

        • Re:Idiot (Score:3, Interesting)

          by everphilski ( 877346 )
          If you trust the government to keep the dollar solid. I don't. If I'm wrong, the worst that happens is what? My gold is worthless? I don't see that happening, as gold has been relatively stable for thousands of years. If you're wrong, what can happen? Massive debt, worthless stocks and no savings

          You can invest internationally on a 401k. Its called diversification. My 401k did better than 9% and I sleep very well at night. Some of my funds did 40+% last year.

          Sure, if you want to earn $15-$25 per hour. Ev
          • Some of my funds did 40+% last year.

            That's great. Considering the annual rate of currency devaluation by all the central banks, 40% is a great profit. Hope it stays that way, especially with fuel and energy costs skyrocketing again.

            Which is money in the bank cause when my son gets sick I take him to the hospital without thinking twice. $20 copay? Who cares.

            It is thinking like this that makes medical bills so high and insurance premiums so high. Insurance was meant for emeregencies, not to pay your docto
            • Considering the annual rate of currency devaluation by all the central banks

              you dont invest in currency!!!! you invest in companies. the STOCK market. Small cap. Large cap. Foreign markets. Currency devaluation is irrelevant. It only matters to you because it gives you the warm fuzzies about owning gold.

              If you're interested in a long term bet, I'll bet you 2 ounces of gold that your stocks in 5 years have declined majorly and your retirement programs will fall so hard you'll have to work an extra 15-20
        • Where can I send $19.95 + S&H for a copy of this sure-fire get-rich plan?
        • Except houses are depreciating assets, just like cars and clothes and food.

          Houses are indeed depreciating assets. Land on the other hand...

          To quote the late, great Sam Clements..."Buy land, they're not making any more of it."

          And that statement is as true today as it was a century ago. Just look around the 'burbs -- you'll see. While your post is a bit over the top, my useless degree in finance gives me just enough understanding of market dynamics to know you're mostly right. However, so long as we
        • If the dollar is so worthless that gold is your only option - you'll have worse things to worry about than how to pay for stuff.

          You'll have to worry about the bullets flying through your walls from the shooting from the urban warfare that will result when society collapses.

          If you're that worried, get lots of non-perishable food and bulletproof your walls.
    • A billion dollars is only $1 per day per citizen

      I think you hit the nail on the head there.

      The US is just to big. That makes the dollar figures so large that even a little graft is worth a fortune.

      It seem to me that the countries that do a really good job are between 2 and 3 million in population. If only we could go back to a loose collection of states (and split a few of the big states).

      • Considering the Constitution provides for a tiny central government (mostly to make sure that the states don't trample on the freedoms we're all born with, and to provide for a central defense but only if the country is attacked). Lincoln the Tyrant was the first of 3 traitors who worked very hard to turn the country into a mockery of freedom.

        While I am anti-State entirely, I can definitely agree that a coalition of independent states that compete with one another would be far better than what we're living

    • Just FYI (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Sycraft-fu ( 314770 )
      Gold is a lousy investment. Don't let the receant upswing fool you, unless this defies history, it's only temporary. Gold has been right around $400 an ounce for over two decades. Well, $400 bought you a whole lot more in 1980 than it does now. It flucuates up and down, of course, it's been as low as $264 and as high as $900, but only temporarily. Actually, if you discount the peak in 1980 it's never gone for above $650 which was in 1981.

      So while it's something you can make money on trading in the short ter

      • Re:Just FYI (Score:3, Insightful)

        by dada21 ( 163177 ) *
        Gold is a lousy investment.

        Just FYI, gold is not an investment. Gold is a store of wealth, a currency, a money. I would never tell you to buy dollars as an investment, why would you think I meant gold is an investment? Gold is merely the same thing as a bank, except it isn't manipulated like the banking cartels are, and it isn't controlled by fiat as the dollar is.

        Don't let the receant upswing fool you, unless this defies history, it's only temporary.

        Historically, gold as been the only store of wealth t

        • I lose on 1 out of 10 companies, usually my entire investment. On the 9 out of 10 that don't fail, I make 20-50% annually. I double my money as a profit in 2-4 years, and I still own the company. Even factoring in the 100% loss on the failed investments, I double my money in approximately 5.5 years and I still retain control. Anyone can do this, and it doesn't require a stock broker who is making money on you if you win or if you lose. (emphasis added)

          THIS is where your entire argument falls apart. The fac

  • Don't these people know how hard it is to boot Windows on an AN/UYK-7(v) [utoronto.ca]?
    We should be in awe of Unisys, not arguing over who billed who.

  • Overbill ?! of course !! (Score:4, Informative)

    by Gates82 ( 706573 ) on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @10:09PM (#14397865)
    I work for Unisys, worst job I have ever had. I was working for IBM. IBM lost the service contract and I ended up working for Unisys.

    Unisys is one of the most unethical companies I have done business with. What can you expect though, our major contract is with Dell. So Dell is awarded a contract and then Unisys fullfills the service end of that agreement. So not only do I work for an awful company I get to deal with crappy Dell hardware, and a Dell Helpless desk (as the customers on my site have come to call them).

    It is no surprise that Unisys overbilled the TSA. We are constantly told to put time on both our tickets and another accounting method. In effect this often double bills our customer or increases the time that we put on calls. In an eight hour day I have often done 15-20 hours worth of work. I often work reimaging one or two systems an complete other calls, but on a busy day a may really only perform 10-12 hours worth of work in 8 hours.

    I am currently looking for a new job. I try to be as honest as I can and still follow this screwed up system. Although when a company chooses the lowest bidder they do get what they pay for. And the Dells and Unisyses of the industry are going to make the profit margin by cheating their customers. It's a good thing I like the company that I support.

    If anyone has a desktop position open in Phoenix, AZ check out my resume [mgbrownefamily.net]

    --
    So who is hotter? [homestarrunner.com] Ali or Ali's Sister?

    • Um, I looked at your resume, and may I offer you some helpful hints. 1. What did you do at university for a year before you moved to a different uni to study civil engineering? 2. Do you think adding your religious affiliations will assist you in landing a job? 3. Whilst you may have an ethical issue with Unisys (I have ethical issues with several companies myself) it probably isn't wise to be broadcasting your distaste with a company while working there AND hoping someone reads your CV. The question any

    • Unisys morale (Score:3, Interesting)

      by typical ( 886006 )
      Okay, yes, Unisys is a big company, but unless there is one person posting over and over, they've got the worst goddamn employee morale that I have *ever* seen.

      I see something like twenty posts from Unisys and ex-Unisys employees here that are overwhelmingly negative about the company. I see only *one* that's remotely positive, and that's from a guy who says that he's so detached from Unisys that he barely knows who he's working for -- and *that's* what he considers good.

      • I know close to 100 former Unisys employees, and very few current ones. Layoffs have been a part of that company's corporate culture since Unisys was formed (via the takeove^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmerger of Sperry by^H^Hwith Burroughs), and many of the folks who are still there had better positions previously and are simply hanging on to whatever is available.

        My wife worked for a while on a Help Desk at Unisys (MACS/InfoHub in Eagan), and morale there was absolutely terrible because most of the folks there were over
  • Just for grins, I searched Google Groups for "Unisys". Here's the top-ranked post (angle brackets edited to correct html confusion, but otherwise verbatim):

    1. Bill B
    Nov 8 1996, 3:00 am hide options
    Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys
    From: Bill B (b...@prolog.net) - Find messages by this author
    Date: 1996/11/08
    Subject: Unisys/Arete 1200 ???
    Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse

    I have a Unisys / Arete 1200 and I'm not sure what I am going to

  • Hey, what's

    as much as 171,000 hours of labor and overtime

    between friends?

  • "the company had possibly overbilled the Transportation Security Administration by as much as 171,000 hours of labor and overtime."

    But they have the way out! [slashdot.org]
    • The word from my Unisys contacts is that there has recently been a push from on high that all technical staff should start "learning more about Open Source technologies." Yes, the directive really is that vague.

      That being said, in many respects the company has committed itself hard to Microsoft technologies internally. Outlook/Exchange is the one and only email client and email server, Microsoft IM through Exchange is the only IM client, etc.

      But the "we have the way out" campaign is quietly realized insid
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  • "...the company had possibly overbilled the Transportation Security Administration by as much as 171,000 hours of labor and overtime."

    Uh-oh.

    Look, I don't really know how to tell you this, but those 171,000 hours? That's... uh, well, that'd be my fault. Back in '99, somebody asked me to get Windows ME running stable, and I haven't left my desk since.

    Sorry. Should be done any day now.

  • The DHS has been using UNISYS for some time now and, like may other possibly illegal lucrative operations recently, is NOT located in the United States. Instead, they are located on the Island of Bermuda, the Bahamas, They Cayman Islands, various other Carribean countries, even Mexico! Heck, I wonder if the Government is monitoring any phone calls coming from the 537 area code. (Hint: America blocks most websites from this CoUntry BecAuse of its free health care and education. To any of you slashdotters n

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