[plug][OT] Who's a Good Hardware Supplier in Perth?

[Arie Hol]

On 6 Sep 2005 at 22:28, Craig Ringer wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:07 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> > But is anyone else working in IT becoming serious sick of all the stuff
> > that we import all the time?
> 
> Sick of it? Not really. Worried about it in an economic sense? Yes. I
> don't see that much can be done currently, though, and it's something
> I'm hoping will balance out with other sectors.
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> I'd prefer to buy local produce ... but not when I expect it'd cost 3x
> as much, and most likely not be that much better, if at all. I don't
> think I'd trust any local HDD manufacturer without some time to prove
> themselves; ditto CPUs.
> 

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> I'm rather more optimistic about the software industry in Australia,
> personally. Hardware requires a massive startup and on-going investment,
> with low costs and huge volumes to be expensive. Or would you pay $70
> for a 10/100 NIC from .au Inc when you can buy a gigabit Realtek for
> $12 ?
> 

Even if you could get all this to happen here in Australia - how long would it be before these 
"Australian made" products are provisioned from overseas sources, manufactured by overseas sources 
and/or assembled by overseas sources (all under license to Australian companies - of course ).

Remember the industrial revolutions - first it was Japan that provided the cheap crap to Australia -
 then Taiwan - Korea - #insert any others here# - and now we are the glorious recipients of 
products from China. 

We have already lost so much in the way of manufacturing and processing industries here in 
Australia - all we will have left is long/longer lines of unemployed people.

Maybe we could start a small company and get these unemployed people to work for us and with a bit 
of luck - if we pay them a cup of rice a day and a B-B-Q sausage  we could start supplying Chinese 
industries with cheap parts/produce to support their growing industries.



Regards Arie
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