The Sunday Times has a piece today castigating Sir Fred Goodwin, erstwhile boss of RBS (curiously, despite what the press tell you, I’ve never heard him called ‘Fred the Shred’ in the bank – he was always known by his initials, FAG, then SFAG after his knighthood). No doubt SFAG is a convenient scapegoat, but:
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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 [...]
The Strategy & Architecture team at work produce a quarterly journal Perspectives on Technology. It’s an in-house publication, with a distribution list of three hundred or so senior managers and influencers in the organisation. I’ve just got a ‘hot off the press’ copy of the Summer 2008 edition which includes an article on open source [...]
I’m always looking for opportunities to promote open source in general (and OpenOffice.org in particular) outwith the “FOSS ghetto”. The day job is not exactly a hotbed of open source (at our last corporate Technology Conference, Steve Balmer gave a video keynote about what a great customer we are). So when I noticed that [...]
Back to the day job, only to be shipped down to London for two days’ offsite with the rest of the IT management team (several hundred). I decided to take the train down, as I was very impressed with the GNER onboard wifi connection, when I used it via my own laptop. Now that our [...]
Have you noticed how everything seems to happen at once? First of all, in the day job, my boss gets sent off on a ’special project’. Now, I am very happy for him, but that means I have to cover his job, and find someone to cover my job… all of which means that all [...]
A picture is worth a thousand words, both in changing the culture in a huge IT shop and in promoting open-source projects
