I worked in Higher Education for 4.5 years in the UK and this article was very much a blast from the past. Some universities really got it but I distinctly reme

I worked in Higher Education for 4.5 years in the UK and this article was very much a blast from the past. Some universities really got it but I distinctly remember being told by the head of IT at a top London university that developers had no place in his opinion. Unfortunately the funding to JISC was heavily cut a few years back and the Dev8D community that had developed (made up of developers at many institutions) lost its momentum to budget cuts and bureaucracy.