| Soleron said: Government IT contracts with Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, HP etc. etc. When you give IBM a maintenence contract the first thing they do is hire 30 people to do it. Why not hire those people yourself, cut out the overhead, and get loyalty? |
Having met government IT people (at the municipal, provincial and federal level) that would be disastrously bad ...
It has been my experience that the larger the corporation a person comes from, and the longer they have been there, the worse they are as an IT professional. While there are exceptions to this, governmental IT departments are full of employees who are more interested in their pension than technology and the only way they can do their job is because it has been simplified by companies like Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, HP, etc.
I don't disagree with the concept that companies could save a fortune by moving towards Linux (both as servers and on the desktop), but a large portion of the reason why governments choose to hire large companies to design and implement their infastructure is because their employees are not good enough to do it.
