anyone here have an interest in automotive electronics

[Christopher Browne]

Wouldn't it be interesting if the *real* goal was to cut down on external
folks in the IT function at GM...  Remember, it was EDS that became Perot
Data Systems that had run their IT infrastructure for lo many years...

It would be interesting if they decided to draw that (which is effectively
conventional IT support) back into GM.  And sorta fun (in a slightly
perverse way) if all the bits about embedded systems were fabricated from
whole cloth by journalists that didn't understand what they heard.

I don't hold to that...

But 10,000 embedded developers sure seems like an enormous quantity of
specialists to be looking for.

If it's so, I would kind of expect it to turn out with something of the
"turning out badly" that we saw at RIM.  They kept hiring buildings full of
people (many being skilled, smart people), apparently imagining that a
grand design would naturally emerge from this.  The implosion been seen now
shows that this doesn't happen.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Dave Cramer <davecramer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I don't think they are related. Autodata just collects data about cars and
> provides them to independents at a cost.
>
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> Dave Cramer
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> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:10 AM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>wrote:
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>> Strange.  The whole point of GM doing software development in-house is
>> to not rely on consulting company (like Autodata mentioned in the
>> article).
>> --
>> William
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>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:01:18PM -0500, Ted wrote:
>> >
>> http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2012/11/05/new-automotive-company-hiring-in-windsor/
>> > some.
>> > -tl
>> >
>> > On 11/05/2012 03:44 PM, William Park wrote:
>> > >That's US.  Not sure how many jobs will trickle up here.  It's right
>> > >direction, though.
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