UK hits Russia with British IT services ban Fresh export sanctions were leveled at Russia by the UK last week, with IT consultancy among other professional services that are banned. Musk you weigh in? Tesla and SpaceX supremo Elon Musk seemingly couldn't keep away from commenting on the annexation last night, suggesting that the sham referendums, which he referred to …
They're starved of cash for themselves because that is government policy, and they have a huge amount of cash for outsourcing because again that is government policy.
Imagine what would happen if that huge amount of cash were not spent on consultancies and the budget were available to build up in-house project management. Then they could hire contractors to do development, get better results, and still save a fortune.
The Properties aren't going anywhere, there's no incentive to sell up when you're looking at a 100% loss due to sanctions and as we're not at war* with Russia they can't be seized as enemy property.
As time drags on, I'm sure some of these buildings will go the way of Chelsea FC with sale funds being frozen until sanctions are lifted - don't hold your breath, it could take decades.
*just a cold war with a very partisan interest in aiding the self defence requirements of a third party country.
You mean all those highly successful, profitable companies ?
Those companies work well when the public sector are not involved. All public sector procurement is a disaster - its not difficult to work out the problem is not the contractor, but is the client.
Contractors who fail hard, go out of business quickly. Clients in the public sector who fail, never suffer the consequences and the public pay all over again.
Wow! That is some rose-tinted "private sector, good; public sector, bad" view.
You are right that the companies are profitable and the public have to pay all over again, but generally only because the consultants have the contracts tied tighter than a duck's arse, so they get paid to fix their f**k-ups. But the corporate donations to party funds means that the government contracts keep flowing despite the incompetence.
I have worked as coding grunt on a couple of such projects where the highly-remunerated, dick-swinging big-name consultants couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag, never mind design a working computer system, yet they kept getting paid time and again to paper over the glaring holes in their specs.
They're hurting the West more than Russia and have precipitated an energy crisis that looks set to trigger a depression.
As Elon says, it's time for both sides to come to the table and end this US vs Russia proxy war madness.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576998577758666752
Dont worry, soon all the 18-55 year old males in Russia will be sent to the front line, so they wont have time to play any games anymore. And if Putin's best buddy in Chechnya gets his way, so will all the 14-18 year old boys, so you can lose most of the underage players too.
No need to worry once the player base is in the trenches...
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