Re: On LinuxToday... erm... today :)

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Ian

Thanks for enlightening us  :-)


Ian Wright wrote:
> 
> Richard,
> 
> The problem with Sheffield Town Hall is that almost all the services >are contracted out. One of the last to go - just before I left two >years ago - was the whole of the City Treasury function. This covered >all financial services and IT including the whole of the centralised >mainframe stuff.

That means that all of the central services stuff is owned by the CIA. 
(in my own experience).  You'll never prove it though.

>Whilst this is still housed in the Town Hall Extension - until they >pull it down later this year - the Council effectively has no control >over it and simply buys in the services they need on a purely >commercial basis.

Well, I did try to suggest that something was wrong somewhere but a
bunch of the usual crowd made me look like a lunatic and that was the
end of it.   When I say the "usual crowd" I mean the same people who
worked me over when I lived outside this country.


> I can't actually remember the name of the company concerned - ECS or >something, but the point is that, if someone wants a PC to do a >particular task, they put in a request to the contractor in the form of >a task specification and they are then supplied with a machine/software >to (hopefully) do the job - the actual machine/OS specification being >at the discretion of the contractor

Do we need to say anything  ??


> and presumably being whatever they can get cheap and what their staff
> recognise. From what I know of staff who were 'transferred' to the
> contractor when they became redundant (if any are still employed >there!), this is unlikely to include anything as 'modern' as Linux.

Well, you *have* confirmed everything about this country that I know to
be true :-)  Couldn't care less, charge ten times more than anyone else
and wonder why something is wrong at the end of it ?

Only people I know that do things this way are the American security
services.  We had the same trouble in the seventies with the Russian
security services (still have ? )

Thanks


-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK

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