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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (83965)	11/11/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>Amazon could achieve profitability right away if the investment >community demanded it, And if my grandmother had wheels she could be a wagon.

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (83965)	11/12/1999 9:16:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

rish look to E.Europe, Wales to bridge skill gap DUBLIN, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A dearth of workers to fuel Ireland's budding IT and service industries is driving employers to try to import skilled labour from Eastern Europe -- and even try to convince the Welsh to commute across the Irish Sea. The heart of Europe's IT industry, housing computer software and hardware giants, including Microsoft <MSFT.O>, Dell <DELL.O>, and Compaq <CPQ.N>, Ireland currently has hundreds of IT jobs employers are deperately trying to fill, recruitment consultants say. "The big IT companies are all having same problems in sourcing good candidates," said Graham Lambert, spokesman for Ireland's biggest recruitment agency Grafton. "A lot of them have gone to Prague, where there is an abundance of well qualified IT people willing to come to Ireland. And Warsaw is a good place to find people for the meat industry," he added. The Irish government is studying a relaxation of visa restrictions for such workers and adapt school curriculums to cater for the children of foreign workers. And now Ireland's retailers, caterers and security firms are looking to neighbour Wales -- which is suffering from high unemployment -- for workers prepared to sail to work and so avoid higher house prices in Ireland. "The idea is that the Welsh workers would commute to work from Wales from Monday to Friday," he said, adding the scheme could help tackle Welsh unemployment which is as much as 20 percent in some areas. REUTERS Rtr 05:39 11-12-99