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Jack Straw: EDS are "snake-oil salesmen"

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    Jack Straw: EDS are "snake-oil salesmen"

    Straw attacks IT industry
    Jack Straw believes the public sector fell victim to the IT industry’s “snake oil salesmen” when it agreed a technology project to manage offenders.
    No sh1t Sherlock!

    #2
    Something that always puzzles me is why these, in essence, bloomin' simple applications take ages to implement and cost so much. Really, why? No R&D, just bog standard RDBMS & code.

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      #3
      Yep. I have worked for and with EDS and would not again....
      "If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier"

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        #4
        Originally posted by DBA_bloke View Post
        Something that always puzzles me is why these, in essence, bloomin' simple applications take ages to implement and cost so much. Really, why? No R&D, just bog standard RDBMS & code.
        Yeah, even you could write the application.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Churchill View Post
          Yeah, even you could write the application.
          You are correct, for once, dog egg. I have good programming & DBA skills; you are simply a benefit fraudster, living in a trashy third storey flat, rolling your own ciggies using horse dung and bus tickets, watching darts, and having a play on CUK when the ASDA cider wears off.

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            #6

            are you sure he waits for it to wear off?

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              #7
              Originally posted by wendigo100 View Post
              Straw attacks IT industryNo sh1t Sherlock!
              Next week - Jack Straw reveals that the Pope IS Catholic, and that bears do sh1t in the woods.
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                #8
                Incredible insight. How many failures at what cost have the usual suspects managed befure this astute observation.

                I think you will find our members have been pointing this out for years. YEARS. Foookin YEARS.
                I am not qualified to give the above advice!

                The original point and click interface by
                Smith and Wesson.

                Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
                  Incredible insight. How many failures at what cost have the usual suspects managed befure this astute observation.

                  I think you will find our members have been pointing this out for years. YEARS. Foookin YEARS.
                  Generally with an air of glee - "this is taking forever, and I'm creaming the cash off the government!"
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                    Generally with an air of glee - "this is taking forever, and I'm creaming the cash off the government!"
                    Choo choo!!!
                    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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