John Reilly wrote:
>> Catherine Ansbro wrote:
>>> At 10:48 02/05/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>>>>>P at draigBrady.com wrote:
>>>>>>> AIB I think use linux internally (and BOI very publically use M$,
>>>> hence one of the reasons their IT merging initiative fell through).
>>>> No govt deparments use OS as far as I know.
>>>>>>>>>>>> And quite a few of their web sites are not readable in Mozilla on
>>> Linux which was more than disappointed with. I had to fire up vmware
>>> to read it in IE.
>>>> John, does "quite a few of their web sites" refer to BOI or AIB? Or
>> both?
>> Opps sorry - I actually meant the govt department web sites, not the
> banks. I was looking for info on some of the sites recently and found
> that some of them didn't work as they should. An example is
> www.finance.gov.ie. On the otherhand, I must say that www.oasis.gov.ie
> which carries a lot of useful information is very good in terms of
> browser support in my experience.
www.ros.ie doesn't work with linux (or XP for that matter!).
Anyway govt site tend to be developed by accenture. I.E.
they spend millions (that goes outside the country) to
get fucked up systems (accenture did pulse for the gardai
(and I was talking to Microsoft consulting people (who
are very good really (hmm too many brackets)) who thought
it was the worst system they had ever seen when they were
asked in to fix it)).
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