At the same time, the district found that the cost of providing and maintaining computers for students was becoming prohibitive.
He maintains computers for a lot of the major Country and Christian artists who live there.
At Wipro's sprawling suburban campus near Bangalore, enthusiastic young engineers in blue-and-cream cubicles write code, build software and maintain computer systems for a host of American companies, including Lehman Brothers, General Motors, Home Depot and Boeing.
In a separate multibillion-dollar agreement, IBM will help maintain computer networks for customers of Cisco.
"The general perception is just like the 'Saturday Night Live' sketch," said Keith Shaw, a senior editor and columnist at Network World, a weekly trade magazine for people who maintain computer networks.
Without IT support to maintain computer systems and functionality, health worker access to computer-based files was limited for various periods of time.
Mr. Alden, 39, had paid more than $2 a gallon for gasoline earlier this year during his frequent road trips for his business, which maintains computer networks for small companies.
Sunquest, based in Tucson, develops and maintains computer systems for hospitals, laboratories and other health facilities.
The bridegroom, 28, is a systems administrator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, where he supports and maintains computer systems for researchers.
The Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Cambridge, Massachusettsin CamaintainsMassacomputer, maintains computer files for all measurements of asteroid positions.
Mr. Downey, who had a small business installing and maintaining computer hardware for local music studios, lost his computer equipment during an F.B.I. raid in January.
