I think this is more symptomatic of IT in Australia. There are pockets of good developers here and there but far and away, the majority of developers in Australia are being paid well above their grade.
Apparently a team of 35 developers couldn't get Git working.. or mercurial.. or even SVN! And had to outsource source control to another company (I'm probably being unfair, the Devs may or may not have had a say in the matter).
This popped up in my twitter feed not too long ago: http://readify.net/our-experience/seek
Apparently a team of 35 developers couldn't get Git working.. or mercurial.. or even SVN! And had to outsource source control to another company (I'm probably being unfair, the Devs may or may not have had a say in the matter).