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Here's an odd one: Indian outsourcer Infosys and Hollywood animation studio DreamWorks Animation have created a “strategic engineering partnership”. The deal looks to involve Infosys running its eye over the technology DreamWorks uses to make movies and figuring out how to commercialise it. The Indian company will “... deploy …

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  1. I am the Walrus

    I wounder how this will work in with the Hasbro news?

    http://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-reportedly-merger-talks-hasbro

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  2. Mark 85

    The possiblities...

    I can just see that this synergy will do for speadsheets what Bollywood has done for movies... Oh wait... <runs screaming from the building>

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  3. SecretBatcave

    Looks like The foundry missed a trick there

    This is the sort of thing the foundry tries to do, Come in, takes over in house software, commercialises it and supports it.

    The original company get free software, and free support/updates/trained potential employees, the foundry gets money from commercialisation.

    Quite how inventsys are going to monetise the dregs that are left in dreamworks, I don't know. Most of it is off the the shelf software, with badly written glue code.

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  4. itmonkey

    That'll be the end of Dreamworks, then

    Complete shambles of an organisation

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    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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      Devil

      Oh come now, that's a bit harsh. After all, Dreamworks did Shrek, Chicken Run, and Galaxy Quest. Gladiator, Band of Brothers and Evolution. Saving Private Ryan for $deity's sake. Can't be all that bad.

      Ah but they also did Transformers. And Meet the Fockers. And they redid the Stepford Wives.

      So yeah, complete shambles.

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        Maybe this will be the Galaxy Quest of outsourcing efforts?

        Myyyyy job went to Indiiiiia...

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