Reply to: Clientco sueing Bob Shawadiwadi

[Menelaus]

I had this news from the LSE drop into my inbox earlier.

Sorry just read that.

Have LSE lost their frickin' minds? Millenium Surveillance is a POS.

[Zippy]

One of the problems is the high ups in client Co who decided to save money by outsourcing to the much cheapness option have a vested interest to keep fiddling the figures and pretend all is well. Only a new regime at the top of client Co will ever own up to how much money has been wasted by outsourcing.

Been there and even got a t-shirt. Really.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I had this news from the LSE drop into my inbox earlier.

London Stock Exchange Group plc (‘the Group’) has today agreed to acquire MillenniumIT, a Sri Lankan-based technology services company serving the capital markets industry, for US$30 million.

Going forward, as well as serving existing and new clients, they will be the Group’s in-house software development team, gradually replacing our current suppliers and bringing intellectual property and know-how fully within the company.

[Menelaus]

I was there when the bombings happened, it made a thoroughly unpleasant place into one to get out of asap and never return.

WHS

I was last there (before last year) in 1990/91 on Granby getting bombed and Scud'd.

[rootsnall]

Yep.

My last permie offer was as Basel II director for a bank in Saudi at about the time that the compounds were being bombed.

I was there when the bombings happened, it made a thoroughly unpleasant place into one to get out of asap and never return.

[Menelaus]

I don't know what it's like nowadays but there was always a firm pecking order in the Middle East. The Europeans got better rates than the Brits, and they both got substantially better rates than the Indians. In the oil industry the septics got the best rates of all, probably because they also had the best kit for drilling and extraction.

Yep.

My last permie offer was as Basel II director for a bank in Saudi at about the time that the compounds were being bombed.

[rootsnall]

Oh I DO hope that this is the start of the Bangalorian rot!

One of the problems is the high ups in client Co who decided to save money by outsourcing to the much cheapness option have a vested interest to keep fiddling the figures and pretend all is well. Only a new regime at the top of client Co will ever own up to how much money has been wasted by outsourcing.

[Sysman]

Interesting I just had a call from a pimp who wants me to reduce my rate to go to the Middle East based on Bob Showadiwadi being able to do it cheaper.

Pimp: Yeah, but they can do it a lot cheaper than UK resource
Me: I'm sure that they can, but they'll be tulip at it and the client won't get what they want at the end. Also, Bobs being sued in the Netherlands at the moment.
Pimp: Oh.
Me: Yeah, "oh" is right.

I don't know what it's like nowadays but there was always a firm pecking order in the Middle East. The Europeans got better rates than the Brits, and they both got substantially better rates than the Indians. In the oil industry the septics got the best rates of all, probably because they also had the best kit for drilling and extraction.

[Menelaus]

Nice one.

What happened to the plans to set up offices in Oxford then?

Still on the go. See note yesterday about cold calling

[HairyArsedBloke]

Interesting I just had a call from a pimp who wants me to reduce my rate to go to the Middle East based on Bob Showadiwadi being able to do it cheaper.

Pimp: Yeah, but they can do it a lot cheaper than UK resource
Me: I'm sure that they can, but they'll be tulip at it and the client won't get what they want at the end. Also, Bobs being sued in the Netherlands at the moment.
Pimp: Oh.
Me: Yeah, "oh" is right.

Nice one.

What happened to the plans to set up offices in Oxford then?

[Menelaus]

Interesting I just had a call from a pimp who wants me to reduce my rate to go to the Middle East based on Bob Showadiwadi being able to do it cheaper.

Pimp: Yeah, but they can do it a lot cheaper than UK resource
Me: I'm sure that they can, but they'll be tulip at it and the client won't get what they want at the end. Also, Bobs being sued in the Netherlands at the moment.
Pimp: Oh.
Me: Yeah, "oh" is right.

[Hawkeye]

Oh I DO hope that this is the start of the Bangalorian rot!

Hear hear!

[Svalbaard]

Oh I DO hope that this is the start of the Bangalorian rot!

Hopefully not just the Bangalorians. I think the world could do without the likes of Crapita and Accenture also.

I was coming though Heathrow the other day and I saw a huge billboard promoting Accenture with the tagline "Accenture : performance, delivered". Apart from the laughing fit that followed, I had a hard time not adding on the poster "late, and over budget" and "but not to your requirements!!!"

[Clarky]

If it's who I think it is, they've been given the boot here too...

Please be doing the needful.

[Moscow Mule]

HCL or Tata?

Or some other outfit I've had the amazing good fortune to avoid so far?