RE: Outsourcing IT

Shannon

Best check the site listed in the original post - MSI is based in Omaha, Nebraska - admittedly a native American-based name!

There is a company called MSI that makes motherboards and such.

I don't have specific information to contradict what you said, but I'd be surprised if it is true. Their site speaks of 9 offices in this country. We have done some work with them, maybe I can find out more.

Regards
Vern

At 06:29 PM 2/21/2008, you wrote:

If I remember correctly, MSI is an Indian (the country, not Native American
:-) based company whose home offices are in India and who farms a large
portion of their outsourcing work back to India. They have a lot of the
state contracts in Illinois and Missouri too, in addition to many small
businesses.



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Earl
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Outsourcing IT

Anne,

In addition to IBM Global Services, there is an IBM Business partner in
the Midwest called MSI (msiinet.com) who provides both hosted and remote
system administration facilities. Global Services (I think)
concentrates on big outsourcing contracts, and MSI does both Large shop
and small shop. Many times these companies will bring over existing
staff and integrate them into the outsourcer.

You may also check with local IBM System Integrators in your customer's
area because this is an area of increasing attention and competition.
The best companies have ISO (and other) certifications that suggest they
use professional IT standards and practices.

HTH,

jte

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> -----Original Message-----
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> This is a question most of us would rather not discuss, but
> do any of you know of reputable companies who do outsourcing
> for small businesses?
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> Thanks!
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