State to Outsource All IT

"Maintaining the status quo is not an option. Technology is the underpinning for a well-run, modern enterprise."

Georgia’s governor feels that his state’s IT is inefficient and ineffective, and has decided to outsource it.

It’s a bad day to be an IT professional in Georgia, where Governor Sonny Perdue has announced that he is moving all of the state’s IT over to the private sector.

The move—what Perdue calls the most ambitious outsourcing over services in the state’s history—is expected to result in pink slips for about 200 state employees.

By Deborah Perelman

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