2% sounds like a bargain!

[Troll]

Are you agreeing or disagreeing?

The likes of Sinclair were hugely successful in the UK and virtually nowhere else. If the EU had existed then, and Sinclair could have been as popular across the whole of what is now the EU they'd have been bigger than Microsoft, bigger than Apple, bigger than IBM. As it was when the UK market dried up they had nothing else and everyone went bust overnight. All the British boffins took their expertise to the US to work for companies not so encumbered by the island monkey mentality that still holds back the UK.

Bit of both... the reason is if a Brit company is successful then the owners will sell it on (possibly to Yanks) and retire to somewhere sunny

ARM may be an exception to this

Americans will take it to a Global level

[NigelJK]

we invented a lot of the technology but when it came to making a profit out of it the yanks plagiarised

FTFY

Not heard of ARM then? (Originally Acorn Risc Machines)

[LondonManc]

GDP - European Union generates a GDP (nominal) of about €14.3 trillion (US$18.5 trillion in 2014) and a GDP (PPP) of about €12.7 trillion (US$16.8 trillion in 2014)

Population and hence market EU is bigger 508 mil vs 322mil

Think the real reason is the Yanks don't spend all day dicking about on CUK

Yanks don't hold IT contracting as a type of person to be revered, more of an Office Angels sort of level.
Besides, we need to throttle our output so we only look twice as good as the permies on the project.

[Troll]

FTFY

Not heard of ARM then? (Originally Acorn Risc Machines)

I just said that ... KUATB

[vetran]

FTFY

Not heard of ARM then? (Originally Acorn Risc Machines)

ever heard of 'The exception that proves the rule'?

[seanraaron]

FTFY

Not heard of ARM then? (Originally Acorn Risc Machines)

Isn't ARM only successful because they license their chip design so anyone who pays can make them? I'm pretty sure if they kept manufacture in-house and tried competing with Intel head-on they'd have been conquered long ago...

[scooterscot]

Upon Brexit (which will never happen anyway, what a waste of money etc but I'll entertain the notion) how are UK Ltd company contractors working in the EU going to be affected?

[tomtomagain]

Interesting point but why are all dominant IT companies mainly Yanks? are start-ups easier over there?

Now that topic is a thread in it's own right.

But consider this as an example : Uber, which essentially facilitates ride-sharing, and is set to dominate ride-sharing ( and probably in the long-term deliveries ) globally has raised $10,000,000,000 in funding. If you had the bright-idea to do ride-sharing do you think that the UK investment community would have lent you $1,000,000?

[tomtomagain]

Upon Brexit (which will never happen anyway, what a waste of money etc but I'll entertain the notion) how are UK Ltd company contractors working in the EU going to be affected?

Badly. They'll be easy targets.

[d000hg]

Upon Brexit (which will never happen anyway, what a waste of money etc but I'll entertain the notion) how are UK Ltd company contractors working in the EU going to be affected?

I don't imagine it will make a huge difference TBH. I've worked with US companies* and it was just fine, and I rather suspect some very open UK-EU agreements would be drawn up to avoid both sides a load of ball-ache.


*working remotely, I should concede