On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:20:00AM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
That's very young by Linux standards! I wonder what the problem is ... ??
I worked for the NHS briefly in 1999 doing y2k compliance, the main problem was that out of all their IT staff in the trust I was working for there was only 1 with any clue and about 40 of them causing more harm than good. Given the pay scales for IT staff in the NHS I think it is probably a staffing problem rather than a hardware/software problem.
I also remember the utter fuckwittery that was ordering up some hardware, it had to come from an "approved" supplier and be "approved" by senior members of staff. If you needed something you'd have to fill in a form with the product code from the approved supplier, this would then be handed up the chain and back down again taking a week or two. It would also show that the approved suppliers price for said item would be about 6 or 7x the price from DABS. You'd then order the part and it would arrive about a week later in a box covered in tape saying "DABS" on it and with a packing note from DABS, All the "approved supplier" would have done was just order whatever from DABS as it was easier than keeping stock and then they could keep the nice big lump on top and then sit back down to relax on the beach in the carribean they were working from.
Apparently nobody thought that spending £350 (+associated staff time) and 3 weeks acquiring an item that would have been sent next day on a credit card order from DABS was a problem. Funnily enough I worked for the government once more after that and found a similar situation and said sod it and got a real job.
Adam