Systems salesperson should find a ready market among the regional electricity companies in the UK who face an angry confrontation with energy minister John Battle this Thursday. The electricity market is supposed to open up for competition on April 1 this year but the whole operation is likely to be postponed for six months because only four of the 14 electricity companies have computer systems that can cope with the change and have meager information on their customers. Incredible given that the companies involved have been fat monopolies which could have invested in the very best datawarehousing systems.
