Soldato
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- 30 Sep 2005
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You'd think, but the gov agency's i work with have some of the latests kit and never have issue signing off new servers etc.
One agency i know of has its users rocking around with 2 14" Dell i7 laptops, they were absorbed into a larger agency but they needed to have access to there older systems. all in the name of cost savings.
Like the companies offering huge pensions, where are these government bodies with large pots of cash?
I've worked for three large public sector places and neither of them had two pennies to rub together. In fact the last one took SIX MONTHS to order a £5k server due to the red tape involved in securing the funds.
Large companies like dell, hp, IBM, Microsoft who I've spoken with share my opinion that the public sector is strapped for cash.