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Inside Wal-Mart IT
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."
bill frist rocks
They're intelligent enough to avoid the proprietary solutions, Linux being one of them. Remember that if you install GPL'd products you're donating $100/seat to Fidel Castro. The use, of course, *BSD.
Darling Smorgrav
Technology centralizes YOU!
(Sorry, just couldn't resist)
Oh, quit it! Arkansas is the armpit of the solar-system, you know it, I know it, and everyone else knows it, so don't even bother.
Face it, everyone, he's saying Arkansas is nice to get you to move there, and leave the rest of us (whom are smart enough not to fall for it) to our paradise. Arkansas is the Greenland of the United States, but instead of being inhabited by bloodthirsty norsemen, it's inhabited by underground coal fires, and toothless, inbred hicks with IQs just high enough to build stills out of miscellaneous plumbing parts and hollowed out tree trunks!
As to which is better (blood thirsty vikings, or Arkansanians [yes, that's what they're officially called]), well, I'll have to leave that up to the reader. However, I must add that I'm fairly certain that "Arkansas" roughly translates to "family tree begins and ends in the same place".