PI Recommendations

[Qdos Contractor]

IT contracting by our underwriter's definition is pretty wide ranging and software engineering is definitely included in that.

[NickFitz]

IT, to me at least, brings visions of corporate infrastructure or City banking.

That's one of those problems where a term starts adopting different meanings to different people.

To me, "IT" means "Information Technology" - i.e. anything to do with technology for processing and disseminating information. I have always felt that printing and the machinery associated therewith is also a form of Information Technology, meaning that the term "IT" should also apply to Linotype machines and Original Heidelberg "windmill" platen presses (both wonderful machines to operate, if you ever get the opportunity).

However, it - whoops, inadvertent pun - "IT" was clearly never meant to apply to such technologies - it was intended to apply to new computer-related technologies, and for a long time it was a suitable catch-all phrase for them.

Nowadays it seems that the term "IT" is mainly used to denote all the infrastructure-related stuff to do with maintaining networks, keeping fileservers running, and replacing broken printers. I'm not sure whether an activity such as writing assembly language code would still be regarded as "IT" by some people anymore.

However, that's a question of common usage; in the context of insurance, the term would presumably be defined in the policy, and it would be that contractually binding definition of the term that mattered.

[FarmerPalmer]

IT contracting by our underwriter's definition is pretty wide ranging and software engineering is definitely included in that.

Thanks for that - looks like you might be getting my business when it comes up for renewal.