Ducati Goes Tata

[silvy1200]

http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/ducati-motorcycles-goes-tata.htm

[silentbob]

make the beast with two backs.

[red baron]

Not what I was hoping to find.

[Porsche Monkey]

So what exactly does this mean?  They didn't get bought by Tata, I'm confused.

[The Don]

When I saw the subject I thought shit no, say it isn't true they, haven't sold out to Tata, have you seen there cars , as long as its just a communications deal we can all breath easy.

[Rob Hilding]

I'm sure it will help that people who have never seen a Ducati will be your customer service link in your time of need

[ducatiz]

Tata Consultancy is simply a technology development and support firm.

They provide IT services to plenty of big-name manufacturers. 

This is nothing bad.  Probably is going to up Ducati's internal IT services quite a bit.

The last company that was doing it was Japanese, they were an arm of TPG.  This is how Ducati (and most firms of this size) do business.

sounds good to me.

[hypurone]

Oh god!! Don't get me started....  I have been dealing with them for the past 3 years (in IT) and finally, FINALLY no longer deal with them!!  I'm sure there are some very bright minds there but I have not seen them...

I'm sure it will help that people who have never seen a Ducati will be your customer service link in your time of need

+111ty billion! Definitely NOT who I want to be talking to on the phone or anywhere else when it involves IT, much less my motorcycle!!    

[superjohn]

I've worked with TCS in the past. They failed to impress.

[El Matador]

Tata Consultancy Services = Outsource to india, reduce quality.

[mitt]

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[Munch]

The whole world is getting outsourced to India!

[He Man]

Curry!

[jerryz]

India = rubbish quality and standards ... my company just outsourced our internet to an Indian telecomm suppliers platinum package real 21st century quality  and the rate is now a mind bending 512kb  instead of the 2mb we used to have , so we cannot do any work now as file transfer rates on site are so slow it take days to download 1 small file. ...which is good ...I can catch up on my sleep.

[mitt]

We should rename this bash on India Support thread 

Our company has had the same experience.   One of our big all-in-one machines has been freaking out and printing reams of broken code at random times.  Our local IT guy can't see the network log going to the printer cause the India people control it, and won't send it when the printer is acting up.

mitt