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Lord Shuggie's public sector tech supplier Viglen booked a double digit sales and profit hike in fiscal '13 ended 30 September - the final full financial year under the hirsute walnut's ownership. After autumn negotiations, the business was offloaded to XMA in January for an undisclosed sum – with chief exec Bordan Tkachuk …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Sales increased because people heard he was selling up.

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  2. NotWorkAdmin

    "Free schools opportunities have grown during 2013"

    Good to hear someone's benefiting from Tony Blairs' creation of privately run child indoctrination centres. Does seem odd that schools that don't teach science or even believe in gravity would need computers though.

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      Re: "Free schools opportunities have grown during 2013"

      Agreed. That's the comment that doesn't sound good. Does suggest that free school may not be getting good value.

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      1. Hilibnist
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        Re: "Free schools opportunities have grown during 2013"

        Hang on... there are more free schools out there now than in the past [1] and that also includes new Academies - either as new flagship schools or rebranded failing schools. They all have a budget to buy new kit, therefore the market has been growing. What suggests that free schools might not be getting good value? The schools have to buy and it's in *their* interests to buy the best kit/support/package for their needs.

        Still, for what it's worth, I'd rather see schools spending money through Viglen, RM, Stone as UK-based companies, than giving it directly to Dell, Apple, HP or one of the non-UK multinationals.

        [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18819391, for example.

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  3. All names Taken

    Is that Shuggie as in pronounced Shoo-ee?

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