Poland has a chance to win another big SSC project. This time, IBM is looking for a suitable site.
“Last week, the company’s representatives visited Gdansk. They met, among others, the head of the region and the president of the city. The company is looking for 5,000 square meters of surface. It wants to launch operations in the first quarter of 2008. IBM says it is supervising the investment of its partner”, a person who took part in the meetings with IBM said.
A client for whom the center will work may be meant by ‘partner’.
“We will do our utmost to make IBM interested in Pomerania. We have science-technological parks in Gdansk and Gdynia. We have a great Finnish expert advising at managing innovation in the region”, Teresa Kaminska, CEO of Pomerania Special Economic Zone said.
Before, IBM people visited Szczecin. Piotr Krzystek, the town’s mayor, does
not confirm the news although he admits that there are talks being held with an
IT company.
“We conveyed all documents to the company a dozen days ago and
we are waiting for their decision. We don’t have suitable surface today but the
company is ready to wait”, Piotr Krzystek said.
The project is secret. This might be an IT-financial center. IBM may plan a
project similar to the one of Hewlett-Packard in Wroclaw where the company has
an accounting center offering services for other companies, called Global
e-Business Operations. Soon, 1,000 people will be employed there. IBM has so far
been checking northern Poland although it is present in the south. In 2005, the
company launched a software laboratory employing 200 people.