The State of Texas versus IBM: Down dooby doo down down…

It just keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?

All the finger-pointing and fault-finding over the state’s troubled data center contract has technology analyst Tom Starnes wondering if Texas and IBM Corp. want this marriage to work.

“It’s like they don’t want to be together and that’s bothersome to me,” said Starnes, who has been researching public-private technology partnerships, including Texas’ $863 million data center consolidation project.

Breaking up, Starnes said, will do no one any good.

IBM’s business reputation would take a hit, Starnes said.

And the state would have to start all over again with another vendor to merge the data centers of 28 state agencies into two updated and secure facilities. There is no guarantee the next relationship will work any better, he said. In the meantime, the agencies are stuck in a technological limbo.

But a split might be imminent.

You know where I’m going with this, right?

You just can’t go wrong with Neil Sedaka, I always say.

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