It took a year to make the decision, but household product maker Clorox is outsourcing its IT operations to HP, hoping to gain "expertise, flexibility and capacity," according to CIO Robin Evitts, "as well as access to resources that we don't have today as we try to address our business needs for the future." The seven-year partnership is costing the Oakland, California company about $260 million.  200 of the 350 tech jobs currently in place will disappear. The outsourcing deal follows on the heels of a big competitor's decision to go the same IT sourcing route.

For more on the outsourcing decision:
- read the article [1] at the Mercury-Register