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IT skills crisis looms - and outsourcing won't help

By Steve Ranger

Published: Wednesday 20 July 2005

Who does this kind of survey !!! The programmer ge...
techie

Outsourcing lost many experienced people to IT for...
Dave Hunter

I've worked on Mainframe systems and PC's develope...
Anonymous

What a bull...it!, Outsourcing is done not for exp...
Anonymous

When I started in the industry punched paper tape ...
Anonymous

Outsourcing will not help, as outsourcing, general...
Anonymous

I'm not sure I agree with this story. There is no ...
Anonymous

These surveys seem to assume that it is the softwa...
Anonymous

Good to hear about the shortage. However companies...
Anonymous

In full agreement with the article, there are thou...
Anonymous

Businesses are now paying the price for undervalui...
Rob Wortham

A neighbour of mine was made redundant 2 years ago...
Terry C

I dont know how much Europe is lacking IT skills, ...
Anonymous

IT employers have only themselves to blame. There ...
Anonymous

The other issue not mentioned here is the fact tha...
Gonzalo

If there are really ads saying "only UK students n...
Anonymous

Who does this kind of survey? That's who: Manag...
passerby

Who does this kind of survey? Folks who starts ...
Anonymous

So why was it not possible for me to break into IT...
Anonymous

There is no skills crisis because pretty soon thei...
Anonymous

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