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Inside Wal-Mart IT

Posted by michael on from the jar-of-pickles-99-cents dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Not outsourcing - from a business point of view by vijayiyer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And the New Deal was the sort of nonsense that makes me pay half of what I earn in income tax which I could otherwise use to save for a rainy day.