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[Owen Blacker]

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> They exist. For all their problems, CISSP and CISA are the industry
> standards. Who on earth wants UK qualifications? In the IT world,
> the UK has been completely unimportant since Tony Benn destroyed
> our
> computer industry back in the 1960s. This country's only
> significance is that we account for 5% of software sales.

Apologies for ignorance, but (*off* list, please)  how did Tony Benn
destroy the computer industry?  :o)

> Come to think of it, there are labour mobility issues here. If some
> German chap who works for a big accountancy firm in Rotterdam and
> is a CISSP wants to come over here and install a system in the UK
> subsidiary of an Austrian bank, and can't, then where does that
> leave Britain under the Treaty of Rome?

By my understanding, in no trouble at all -- as long as they accepted
any Dutch / German / Austrian equivalents accreditations as
equivalent.

I reserve the right to be wrong, of course...  *GRIN*


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