My *personal* experience with EDS so far (on two completelly different occasions) is that they are:
1) Incompetent
2) Dishonest
3) Arrogant
This happened in two completelly different projects lasting many months each, in two different parts of the country, with two completelly different EDS teams, and in two different problem domains (both in the IT area, tho), spaced by 3 years. So it's hard not to generalize and say that EDS as a company does terrible service.
Apart from my personal experience: here in Brazil at least, they have the worst possible reputation; just going around and asking people, couldn't find anyone who would put in a good word for them.
One of the people I talked to told me that the only ones really good in EDS are their sales people and their lawyers: the sales people excel in selling overpriced contracts to customers, and the lawyers contrive such 'fantastic' contracts that when the client realizes how bad they are being had, they can't even quit, and if they try they are sued by EDS, just like Xerox was some years ago (Can you imagine that? A services company suing their customers!).
So, it really looks like EDS is something to be avoided at all costs...
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My *personal* experience with EDS so far (on two completelly different occasions) is that they are:
1) Incompetent
2) Dishonest
3) Arrogant
This happened in two completelly different projects lasting many months each, in two different parts of the country, with two completelly different EDS teams, and in two different problem domains (both in the IT area, tho), spaced by 3 years. So it's hard not to generalize and say that EDS as a company does terrible service.
Apart from my personal experience: here in Brazil at least, they have the worst possible reputation; just going around and asking people, couldn't find anyone who would put in a good word for them.
One of the people I talked to told me that the only ones really good in EDS are their sales people and their lawyers: the sales people excel in selling overpriced contracts to customers, and the lawyers contrive such 'fantastic' contracts that when the client realizes how bad they are being had, they can't even quit, and if they try they are sued by EDS, just like Xerox was some years ago (Can you imagine that? A services company suing their customers!).
So, it really looks like EDS is something to be avoided at all costs...