Fujitsu UK sales director: I'm off

Reminds me of when I joined a substantial tech wholesaler in the UK in the late 90's. Brought in to sell HP kit, I was 'reassigned' to sell Olivetti server kit instead. 3 months later I'd sold 4, which on hindsight was probably a record. Now that was really pushing water uphill and over the moors!

Sadly...

Fujitsu has not been able to shake the culture of ICL. Dealing with Fujitsu UK often has the feel of dealing with another era, somewhere around the 1970s. Fujitsu just doesn't seem to have moved with the market, let alone innovated, and seems to be locked in to local authorities, government departments and government agencies where it has been wrong-footed by recent changes in the government attitude to supply of ICT. The government doesn't want mucking big mainframes, it doesn't even want to own the hardware if it can get away with renting it elsewhere. On the client side Fujitsu offers some forgettable laptops and desktops and, if it still does them, some scanners that only seem to be chosen by government departments. A bit like the dead parrot, Mate, this thing wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it!