On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 15:54, Alan Harris wrote:
I went to a Welsh Assembly Confererance in Llandrind not so long ago - spoke there to one Jim Heywood, developer with capita E.S. who was unaware of the general bad feeling regarding CES's change to .net and m$ sql - interested in hearing from people like us. However, I've mislaid his business card - I think his e-mail was jim.heywood@capitaes.co.uk but i'm not sure - maybe we should let him know what we think?
Alan
I was at Capita a while back and I was told the reason they are in bed with MS is that the turn over in programmers means they have to go for the lowest common denominator in terms of expertise. I pointed out that if they used open source they could use the money saved in software licenses to pay better programmers to stay! When it comes down to it the decision makers just don't understand the options. Regards, -- Ian