After leaving Xerox in 1999, the Stanford MBA served as chairman and CEO of Avis Group Holdings and Equitant Ltd.

The new comrades have a lesson to learn -- the SPLM Oyee slogan which is an equitant to NCP's Allah Akbar.

In February, IBM bought Dublin-based OTC outsourcing firm Equitant, whose clients include Microsoft and Lucent Technologies--a sign, analysts think, that the market for such services is heating up.

With IBM's acquisition of Equitant, IBM expanded its capabilities in Finance & Administrative (F & A) process transformation and outsourcing services to help clients achieve a higher level of business performance.

Comprehensive F&A HR IT Accenture Accenture Accenture Accenture * ACS ACS ACS ACS CGEY * CGEY CGEY * CGEY Hewlett Packard * Hewlett Packard Hewlett Packard * Hewlett Packard IBM (PwC) IBM (PwC) IBM (PwC) IBM (PwC) Perot Systems * Perot Systems Perot Systems * Perot Systems Deloitte Aon CSC Ephinay Arinso EDS Equitant Convergys Infosys OPI EDS Keane Sourcenet Exult SAIC Unisys Fidelity (FESCO) Satyam WNS Hewitt Unisys Xansa Mellon Wipro SynHRgy (Mercer) * "Comprehensive" services could be delivered with an existing partner.

Shoots of the plant consist of long sword--like leaves with equitant leaf bases arising from a geophytic rhizome.

o] die Aprilis pro expensis Bourman equitant' ad ffodringay pro quodam cantu ex mandato magistri prepositi [xj.sup.d'].

ON a difficult eight-race card at Dundalk tonight, the Joseph O'Brien-trained Equitant, successful on his recent stable debut here, is a hopeful nap choice to defy top-weight in the Floodlit Friday Nights Apprentice Handicap.

He left to become chairman and CEO of Avis Group in 1999, and later served as chairman and CEO of Equitant, Inc.

He is currently Chairman and CEO of Equitant, the innovator and premier provider of fully integrated Order-to-Cash (O2C[TM]) Outsourcing for Global 1000 corporations.