Comments on: Sears ends $1.6 billion deal with Computer Sciences

Retail giant says CSC failed to perform up to snuff, but the IT services company has a different view.

[dlmtechnology]

Perhaps its K-Mart buying Sears is todo for this?

Perhaps retail giant, K-Mart has something to do with this seeing
that they have boughten Sears, has anyone looked into what K-
Mart currrently uses for their IT?

[CitizenX]

Actually it is probably CSC's incompetence...

I worked there on the help desk and can believe the Sears
position.

Just how are the IBM and CSC deals related!

This article seems to suggest that there are similarities between the technology services contract between Computer Sciences Corp. and Sears, Roebuck; and, one - a multiyear, $5 billion outsourcing contract between JPMorgan Chase and IBM that apparently became undone last September and perhaps should not be compared as such.

Within the context in which this article is written and from all appearances the matter between IBM and JPMorgan Chase was never litigated in the courts and it does appear that the cessation of this contract was done in the most gentlemanly manner that is characteristic of IBM; lest we forget the Microsoft-IBM relationship when it all became public during the long drawn out anti-trust case against Microsoft. It is the reported merger between BankOne and JPMorgan Chase that has apparently created a duplication of the services that were being offered by IBM that may have caused the decision for the cessation of this contract between JPMorgan Chase and IBM (not a failure to perform), much to a level of deficiency in terms of intellectual property and technology strength on the part of JPMorgan Chase-BankOne it is sincerely believed by this contributor.