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Story: Why killing 80,000 desktops is worse than careless

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Posted by: Anonymous (Sunday 12 December 2004, 9:54 AM)

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I think youll find, Mr Liberal Democrat MP, that its very likely the people involved with this upgrade previously worked for the DWP, having worked with EDS I know that they dont magcially parachute hundreds of staff in, most EDS people either used to work for a client of EDS (of which there are thousands btw) or still work on there original site doing a similair job.

Yeah, blame this account and its weak change control ,but dont Tar the whole of EDS as incompetent, I have a lot of friends who work for EDS and they are very smart, very dedicated people.

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