Re: [Sheflug] IT giants 'ripping off Whitehall', say MPs

[(Ted Harding) <ted.harding@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28-Jul-11 10:41:57, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14314935
> 
> "Government departments have been ripped off by a "cartel" of
> big IT  firms, a damning report by a committee of MPs has found."
> 
> Just to add my own 10p's worth.  Although, it's proabably a £1 coin
> by  now. Inflation since yesterday. I remember Harold Wilson saying
> "This will not affect the £1 in your pocket".  When I was a boy. 
> 
> For nearly 40 years now I've witnessed the fact that one Government 
> after another has screwed up the IT sector and anything to do with IT 
> in Government offices. Let's see... "end the era of vast government IT 
> projects that he said had dominated Labour's time in power. "   I 
> remember reading exactly the same words in a newspaper about thirty 
> years ago.  The Prime Minister has dicovered copy and paste in his 
> word processor ?
> 
> The comments that have been added to the bottom of the page are a good 
> read.  Add one yourself if you want to.  Not that anything is going to 
> change.
> 
> -- 
> Richard

See also my somewhat longer comment posted to RadStats this morning:

ttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=RADSTATS;557c36b7.1107

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

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