Jack Straw: EDS are "snake-oil salesmen"

[_V_]

So EDS aren't donating a large sum to New Labour this year then?

[Rantor]

Do EDS stil get new project in Britain?

I thought they had screwed up so badly on various gov projects that the apogee of professionalism was now Accenture.

[ChimpMaster]

I've consulted at EDS and they are a joke. Really, even the quality of most of the staff proves that they are incapable of putting a project through the correct procedures. Especially at the programme management level.

However I've also got to take a pop at the public sector loonies who are sent in as business analysts and the like. The amount of re-work and changes I saw coming through were just ridiculous. Then again perhaps EDS should have managed expectations better.

You know one thing for sure though -- next time the government have an IT project up for tender, they will again go for the cheapest option.... EDS.

[SallyAnne]

Yep. I have worked with EDS and would not again....

What a load of b*llocks - you should be struck of the contractors list immediately!

EDS gigs are the best a contractor can hope for. Boat gigs, I like to call them!

They pay a STUPID amount, and you have **** all responsibility!

[DBA_bloke]

What a load of b*llocks - you should be struck of the contractors list immediately!

EDS gigs are the best a contractor can hope for. Boat gigs, I like to call them!

They pay a STUPID amount, and you have **** all responsibility!

Boat? As in gravy boat, with buttery mash, turkey twizzlers, cake (deep-fried), icecream (deep-fried and drizzled with lard), more cake (deep-fried). And a fried egg on top and spam (also deep-fried)? Thought so. Fatty!

[TheFaQQer]

What a load of b*llocks - you should be struck of the contractors list immediately!

EDS gigs are the best a contractor can hope for. Boat gigs, I like to call them!

They pay a STUPID amount, and you have **** all responsibility!

Any government gig is the same.

Current one - seven contractors. Between the lot of us, this week there has been enough work to go round for maybe 8 hours.

Boring, but lucrative.

[SallyAnne]

Boat? As in gravy boat, with buttery mash, turkey twizzlers, cake (deep-fried), icecream (deep-fried and drizzled with lard), more cake (deep-fried). And a fried egg on top and spam (also deep-fried)? Thought so. Fatty!

As in "earn so much you can BUY a boat" gigs

But thanks for that....I'm starving now

[TheFaQQer]

Boat? As in gravy boat, with buttery mash, turkey twizzlers, cake (deep-fried), icecream (deep-fried and drizzled with lard), more cake (deep-fried). And a fried egg on top and spam (also deep-fried)? Thought so. Fatty!

Mmmmmmmmm - lard.

[rootsnall]

The amount of re-work and changes I saw coming through were just ridiculous. Then again perhaps EDS should have managed expectations better..

Why would they when the government will keep paying them for the changes. ( Note to myself - must get on government project asap ! )

One client I've been at a few times brought in EDS to 'save money', booted them out a year or two later in a painful expensive divorce.

[TheFaQQer]

Why would they when the government will keep paying them for the changes. ( Note to myself - must get on government project asap ! )

The really lucrative bit is when you have security clearance, that they are insisting on...