and instead immunized
computer service providers from liability "on
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Computer Services has been working on its development for a year and the contracts with Golden West Foods and Metroplex have given them a platform from which to enhance the product.
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Computer Services has been working on its development for a year and the contracts with Golden West Foods and Metroplex has given it a platform from which to enhance its product."
ACS has shot to the top tier of US
computer services firms in just 11 years of trading by adopting an aggressive acquisition strategy.
But analysts are wondering if spending on
computer services will now slow down, due to firms waiting to see how the Millennium changeover goes.
For example, during the cold war, the development of advanced weapons contributed strongly to increasing demand for engineering and
computer services.(2) With the end of the war, advanced weaponry became less of an influence on demand.
Pricing
computer services can be market-based, cost-based, or flexible.
The organization recently installed IBM's new enterprise servers at one of the group's units, SABRE
Computer Services, based in Tulsa, OK.
The need for experts in information technology (which includes
computer services and telecommunications) is growing, Davis says, partly because the field now encompasses new technologies, such as interactive multimedia, which did not exist a few years ago.
Software for administrative, financial, utility billing, payroll, and personnel functions is available from: A/E Micro Systems, Inc.; All Star
Computer Services; AmeriData Systems, Inc.; Automate Computer Software; Constructive Computing; Corbin Willits Systems, Inc.; Data Basics, Inc.; Deneb, Inc.; Elke Corp.; Erudite Corp.; GTE Government Information Systems; HTE, Inc.; Haestad Methods, Inc.; Hoffman Assoc.; IBM; ITX; Intedata Systems; Integrity Systems; J & H Software, Inc.; Jayhawk Software; KRS Enterprises, Inc.; Philip Lieberman & Assocs.