[Gllug] [Long] Down-under response. Was: File On 4 on waste in Govt computing projects

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On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:47 PM, David L Neil <GLLUG at getaroundtoit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 03/03/10 10:52, Richard Jones wrote:
>>
>> No surprise to anyone on this list ...
>>
>> http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fileon4/fileon4_20100302-2038a.mp3
>>
>> Rich.
>>
>
>
> Rich, (and GLLUGers)
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Much to my surprise I was able to hear this all the way down-under, and
> using the MPlayer Plug-in to Firefox under CentOS - having heard that
> the BBC has recently taken negative steps towards our FOSS community, to
> say nothing of being too shy to support expatriates or 'educate the
> natives' (ie imitate the grand vision of the "World Service" - the WWW
> ^H technology that came before the Internet...)
>

><mega snip>

I have a Kiwi colleague, working in London, he could not find a job
down under and had to come back to the UK for work, he said the
situation down under for IT professionals is dire (or do you think
they are immune to outsourcing to India and  other economic pressures?
They even are in a similar time zone as the Philippines, Singapore and
other "next generation" outsourcing hotspots which makes things
particularly challenging).  This friend is no dumber, has worked in
top companies in the UK for several years.

As for economists predicting how the UK (or Aussie or Kiwi) economy
will do in the next 10 years, phwa!, like if they really knew what
they are talking about (have we forgotten how little foresight about
their own field of "expertise" these fellows have in general terms?)
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