I just hope that they dont make the same mistakes they did on the school networks they setup. I mean whos bright idea was it to use all the same technician passwords on ALL of the n3tw0rk5s.

Ah we can but dream...

This reeks of protectionism.

Not saying it's a bad thing though.

I had a SMF Viglen PC last year. The website for support was shit and downloading drivers were a farce. The build quality was also shocking and it was more expensive for what it was.

The only reason why the government should be buying Viglen's shit is to support our economy and home grown industry, apart from that in my opionion Viglen has no other merits from what I've experienced so far.

Anyway I'm a tax payer and I hope the goverment secured a deal that was beneficial to me and not AMS.

Paris. Because I can't think of anyone I rather get fucked by for a £30 million pound bill for 70,000 wank pc's

Can't wait for the first tabloid reports of a government worker leaves a confidential-information-filled PCW9512 on the tube...

You're fired!

....that's over £428 per PC.

Could pay less than that buying individual PCs at retail prices for higher quality machines.

Glad out taxes aren't being squandered then.

Paris - the government could at least spunk our hard-earned over her.

Viglen? Memories of grotty Windows 95 machines in libraries coming back to me.

How did they make them so ugly?

Guess what the task is gonna be on tomorrow's episode of the Apprentice...?

"Right, you lot, I want you to come up with a proposal to shift a load of beige boxes to some men in suits. The team who secures a multi-million pound contract will win. The team who doesn't do a deal will lose and have to face me in the boardroom, and then one of you will be fired."

If the winning team is Empire then Srallen could be in for a big shock when he tallies up all the figures... that £30M contract could end up costing him £50M at the end of the day.

As long as the winning team didn't have Northern Monkey and Shouty Woman then I won't mind.

Paris cause she reminds me of the blonde girl with the horse's teeth.

Apart from Swallan's chirpy cockney accent, how much of Viglen is still British anyway? The hardware and software certainly won't be.

As someone who currently works in the forward-thinking public sector, I'm just hoping there's someone out there who can provide us with some kind of telephone that's also able to handle emails. Preferably in some kind of futuristic silver plastic casing.

Now wouldn't *that* be something..?

...well it is and it isn't.

The Dell Optiplex 755 (2GHz Pentium-D, 1GB RAM, 80Gb HD, DVD-RW, 17" TFT). This machine currently costs £379 (exc VAT & shipping) direct from Dell.

The EXACT same machine to the NHS... *drum roll please*... £780! Goverment contracts are just an excuse to milk the tax payer dry with minimum repercussions.

The longer I stay in the NHS the more depressed I get at how much I as a tax payer am getting a raw deal.