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...time when she must parry new threats from IBM and Dell. Both have spent the past year bulking up major parts of their businesses, while HP has been on a low-cal diet, trying to restore its flabby enterprises to health. As analyst Bill Shope of J.P. Morgan Chase puts it, "IBM is trying to squeeze HP at the upper end of the market, while Dell is challenging it at the lower end. HP has carved a spot in the middle, but it's not clear if that's where it should...
Having PWC helped IBM win exclusive negotiating rights for a $5 billion deal with J.P. Morgan Chase this month. HP did not bid for that job, and in February neither HP nor Compaq was able to beat IBM for a $4 billion contract with American Express. Says Doug Elix, chief of IBM Global Services: "HP reminds us of where we were 10 years ago when we were building our services and got into outsourcing. It takes a long time to build services that have the breadth ours do." As evidence that it can tackle IBM in large outsourcing jobs...
...insurance sector. More recently, she helped land a $4 billion, seven-year deal with American Express, which will rely on IBM to provide IT on a pay-as-you-go "utility" basis. She has also been busy trying to help close another $5 billion outsourcing deal with J.P. Morgan Chase. "She has a great ability to gain the confidence of executives, including CEOs," says her boss, Doug Elix, head of Global Services. Rometty is already winning admirers at PWC as well, in part by not imposing IBM's hierarchical culture on the collegial former partnership. With IBM shifting $1 billion...
...ties to the Iraqi exile community. On the other end of the line was an old Iraqi friend, now living in Europe, whom the former official had met when he was stationed in the Middle East in the 1990s. There were some pleasantries; then the Iraqi cut to the chase. In the past two months, he said, four senior Iraqi security officials had contacted him and asked if he could help them establish lines of communication to the U.S. so that if war started, they could be on the winning side. The former official had contacted two old colleagues...
...ensure that the population is culled to match the habitat’s capacity to sustain it. On the other hand, death by slug or buckshot is neither pretty nor peaceful. And sometimes the deer is only wounded, not killed. The volunteers assisting the paraplegic hunters must then chase after it, following the blood trail, until they find it or until the trail disappears...