 "The Daily Record (Baltimore)")
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Maryland sales tax for computer services draws opposition
The Daily Record (Baltimore)
; A proposed sales tax on computer services emerged as a popular target Thursday as foes called it unclear and dangerous to small business. The Senate narrowly defeated an effort Thursday afternoon to remove the proposed sales tax from computer services, landscaping and arcades as it worked into the
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Dealer won't upgrade, gets mind-boggling bill; Hefty tab escalates nasty vendor spat over computer gear.(spat between automobile dealers and Dealer Computer Services Inc. in Findlay, Ohio)
Automotive News
; Byline: Ralph Kisiel What does a dealer do when he gets a bill of nearly $1 million for his dealership computer system - laugh, cry, scream? Steve Young found himself in this predicament in Findlay, Ohio. Young, general manager of Findlay Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, says the dealership received a
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Government Shifts Computer Services Contract Focus; Bigger Firms Are Given Smaller Share of Business
The Washington Post
; The giants of the computer services industry are losing ground to their middle-size competitors in the fight for federal dollars, according to a study by IDC Washington Inc., a market research firm. The top 10 vendors received 28.6 percent of the federal funds spent on computer services in fiscal
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Area Computer Services Market Strong; Economic Development Group Ranks Baltimore-D.C. Region High
The Washington Post
; The Washington-Baltimore region, aided by heavy concentrations of federal agencies and research and development centers, ranks as one of the leading U.S. markets for computer services, according to a regional economic development organization. Only the New York-Northern New Jersey metropolitan area
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Computer Services Firms Want Sales Tax Repealed; Businesses Say They Were Caught Off-Guard by Levy
The Washington Post
; The idea surfaced in a private meeting of a group of Maryland senators known as the "lunch bunch," coming just as other tax proposals were meeting steadfast resistance: Why not apply the state sales tax to computer services? The provision, raised amid the hectic special session of the General
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 "Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)")
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Computer-services firms see offshoring as survival tactic.
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
; Byline: Crayton Harrison Sep. 11--Electronic Data Systems Corp. is going to look a lot different next year. As the Plano-based computer services firm pursues a cost-cutting plan that could cut up to 20,000 jobs, it's more than doubling the size of its offshore workforce to 20,000 by the end of
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Computer services booms as customers search for cheap data processing.
Software Industry Report
; COMPUTER SERVICES BOOMS AS CUSTOMERS SEARCH FOR CHEAP DATA PROCESSING Recession Is Putting New Emphasis On Wizards Of Polyglot |System Integration' The mixed bag of hardware, software and administrative systems integration expertise that makes up the product called computer services has come into
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Computer services tax in Maryland faces uncertain fate in Senate vote
The Daily Record (Baltimore)
; A key Senate committee will likely vote Monday on whether -- and how -- to repeal an unpopular sales tax on computer services, but a tough fight still looms for the effort. There is support in both chambers of the General Assembly for repealing the tax, but it is not certain whether the legislature
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A Belated but Mighty Lobbying Effort Against the New Computer Services Tax
The Washington Post
; ... brought as many as 300 computer services industry executives and their employees to the capital. Also on the itinerary was a news conference featuring sympathetic legislators in what many acknowledged is an uphill battle in a 90- day session that just passed ...
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Electronic Data Systems.(to acquire Systematics AG, computer services)(Brief Article)
Europe
; The world's number two computer services firm, Electronic Data Systems, announced plans to acquire Germany's Systematics AG, effectively doubling its business in Europe's largest computer services market. The Texas-based EDS will pay $570 million in cash and stocks for the Hamburgbased Systematics,
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