Oh yeah baby - bring it on!!!

[WageSlave]

IT professionals from the public sector would be likely targets, he said.

<toot> <toot> gravy train!

[hyperD]

Actually was just having a discussion with a friend the other day about that and we came the realisation that the changes over the last 5 years have not been as great as the changes for the 5 years leading up to 2k. While change is always occuring and will for many decades to come definatly get feeling it is slowing down

I think people are generally getting thicker over the years - it must be the estrogen in the water turning us into girlies or something.

[stackpole]

Re: changes over the last 5 years

So the rate of change is changing. Do you think the change in the rate of change will change?

[Not So Wise]

just think about how many things happenedin IT in the last 7 years

Actually was just having a discussion with a friend the other day about that and we came the realisation that the changes over the last 5 years have not been as great as the changes for the 5 years leading up to 2k. While change is always occuring and will for many decades to come definatly get feeling it is slowing down

[AtW]

2012 is 7 years away, just think about how many things happenedin IT in the last 7 years: its like fecking eternity.

My prediction that it will take 4 people to build the whole Olympic Info System using .NET 4.0 running on Windows 2012

[Not So Wise]

Aye whats first two things i thought,
why not reuse what useing for 2008?
And if not useing it because out of date why the start work on anything else within 3/4 years because it would just suffer same problem

[lilelvis2000]

Can't they just recycle what they build for Bejing??? Any thing they build today will be obsolete by 2012 anyway. Me thinks they should concentrate on finishing the buildings.

Given the state of unionised labour in the UK, Perhaps they could contract that out to China and ship the buildings over??

[Chico]

Kerching!! After the bad news recently some good news.

From The Times

Olympics signals race for IT talent
By Elizabeth Judge


BRITISH companies may be about to face a “brain drain” of IT staff as technology experts race to find lucrative work providing computer systems for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Atos Origin, the Paris-listed company that is contracted by the International Olympic Committee to manage the IT systems for the London Games, wants to recruit thousands of British IT specialists.


The project will be one of the biggest and most high-profile IT challenges in Britain since the millennium bug, which saw thousands of IT contractors poached from British companies to deal with a “year 2000” computer crisis. Systems worldwide were expected to collapse because they would not be able to cope with the change in date from 1999 to 2000.

Atos will use its own 46,000 employees but it has to work on the Beijing Games until 2008 and has confirmed that it will also be looking for local, British IT professionals as early as next year to help with London. The work will involve everything from building secure IT systems to hold data on the athletes and other people involved in the event to ensuring the fast display of results on the internet and elsewhere.

Richard Banks, of Computer Futures, the British-based recruitment specialists, said: “The Olympic work will be exciting, sexy work for people to get involved in. People will be approached for particular projects.” IT professionals from the public sector would be likely targets, he said.

Atos has been contracted to provide all IT work at the Olympic Games since 1998. Recently it had its contract renewed through to the 2012 Games.

Patrick Adiba, an executive vice-president at Atos, said: “As we did in Athens, we will be looking for potentially thousands of local people to get involved — some of them contractors, some of them as volunteers.”

Atos will send its own team to London to start work in earnest once the Beijing Games have finished in