About two years ago, Kevin Miller needed a little help supporting legacy applications and developing new software for large automotive manufacturers. He decided to conduct a Cobol pilot project with Information Technology United Corp., a Beijing-based outsourcer with U.S. offices in Redwood City, Calif.
“We’d seen their marketing and qualifications; we just wanted to do a proof of concept to make sure that everything worked,” says Miller, who is systems consulting manager for the automotive solutions group at Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS).