After being offered the chance to plug open-source in the day job last quarter. I was delighted to be asked to ride another hobby-horse this time, with a piece on Green IT, which you can read here on-line. Let’s hope the message isn’t lost in the current chaos in financial services.

As a footnote, I’ve been asked a number of times about how it feels to be working in financial services at a time when the industry is being blamed for every catastrophe facing the planet. It’s certainly changed times for people who up until a few weeks ago thought they were working for one of the world’s most successful and admired companies. As one lifetime employee told me:

It’s as if you’ve spent your life building this really posh, really successful luxury hotel where everyone wants to stay.
Then suddenly one day you find that all the money has come from a brothel which the management have been secretly running in the basement.

The person making that comment hadn’t been in receipt of any mega bonus payments either, just a regular modest annual profit share – which they had dutifully invested in bank shares.

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