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Stan Beer
Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:30
According to the former Australian based developers of flagship BMC product Patrol, a recent claim from the AIIA that there is no IT skills shortage is way off the mark.
A manager from the Australian office of Denver-based Proxima Technology, which was founded by two of the original developers of the Patrol performance monitoring product that was later bought by BMC Software, said the company has been looking for good staff in Australia for months with little success. The skills shortage is so accute that the company is considering looking offshore.
The Proxima manager says the lack of university IT graduates is a major cause of the problem.
"This may be old news now but speaking from our experience the comment from AIIA about there being no skills shortage is completely inaccurate," the manager said.
"Proxima Technology has been looking for 10 full time positions these include senior roles in development, java developers and documentation writers for the past 3 months with limited or no success. It is not a question of money it is a question of finding people with the appropriate skills. Ultimately, these people are not coming through the university system and now we are in a position where we have to look off shore. Something we have been avoiding. We set up R&D in Australia back in 2000 and it has been a great place for us."
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