HP scores GM contract

HP announced that General Motors (GM) has awarded it more than $700 million in IT services contracts over a five-year period. The agreement spans global product development, manufacturing and quality, customer and dealer information systems, and global SAP enterprise architecture management support, reports CRMToday.com.

Building on the existing relationship between the companies, HP Services will work with GM`s Information Systems and Services organisation to provide server management, application maintenance and systems integration for a number of information systems areas.

HP Services will be responsible for management of the vast majority of GM`s global engineering workstations, enterprise resource planning hosting, global product development server environments and many of the servers in GM`s Asia Pacific region.

Clumsy handling of enterprise data - and, in particular, invisible but crucial metadata - can prove costly, says Peter Coffee in his eWeek column. Data, carelessly handled, can undercut efforts at crafting a competitive strategy.

Workshare`s Trace, updated to version 2 last June, makes it hard not to notice that documents are bearing unintended baggage, says Coffee.

The company expands on its metadata protection offerings with the announcement of its Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite, adding key components for network-level scrutiny and automated policy-based protection - because systems without automation are science projects, not enterprise solutions.

India is leading in the adoption of new technology and software concepts, according to Sun Microsystems.

Addressing a press conference in connection with its annual conference Sun Tech Days 2006 here, Matt Thompson, director, Technology Outreach and Open Source Programs Office, Sun Microsystems, said that India remained one of the top three countries for company`s future growth and would be investing more than ever before in the country.

According to an article published on Business-standard.com, Laurie Tolson, VP, Sun`s Java Platforms Group, said the conference would focus on Java Standard Edition, Java Enterprise Edition, Java Micro Edition as also other popular subjects like Open Source, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture and emerging platforms like Open Solaris.