Talk:Electronic Data Systems/Archives/2015

Edits

• Another link to Enterprise Services
• More documentation
• Check out Hoover's for EDS revenue/locations
• Incorporate the company's history from GM origins and information such as board of directors in a timeline Ranerio (talk) 17:42, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Recommended changes

Now that this article is split, I recommend that this article be converted from an article about a corporate entity into a standard encyclopedia entry. Here is an example of what I think would be appropriate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braniff.Jarhed (talk) 13:29, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

GM & EDS

Didn't General Motors buy EDS at one point? In 1980s? DEddy (talk) 15:12, 9 August 2014 (UTC) Yes they were bought outright by GM as a subsidiary along with Hughes Tools (aviation). The main contribution that EDS made was to consolidate GM,s computer systems from all the car divisions into single systems (note that a Chevrolet plant would not talk to Buick etc} — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.145.213.194 (talk) 17:22, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Major addition to the history section

Hi there,

I was reading a reference to EDS in a book about Apple and clicked here - noticing that despite being enormous and having a long and impressive history, the history in Wikipedia (somewhere you'd expect to be large because it's a computer company) was next to non-existent (founded in the 1960s, then absorbed into HP in the 2000s).

This seemed a bit sad for a company that was huge internationally (even in my home country of NZ where it signed major contracts when I was growing up with the government, banks, and bought the interbank processing company Databank.

So after seeing little on HPs site, I thought the Internet Archive might have something and hot paydirt on EDS's own history page. I've provided a subset of the info - summarising it - and in some case the linked companies mention either being taken over or taking over EDS.

It's better than nothing.

Escottf (talk) 18:19, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Good points.

Bear in mind that wikipedia editors tend to have a retail bias. Lots of people have bought Apple products and are interested enough to write a few sentences. Very few members of the public have bought multimillion-dollar IT outsourcing contracts. bobrayner (talk) 00:43, 21 April 2015 (UTC)