Mutley Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Front page and centre spread (oh err) - well it is in the print edition. Online version below. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/200...isle-of-man.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Git Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Just fished it out of the bin, I only read the Dilbert cartoon on the back page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 What a load of old flannel. Whenever I used to read a pile of bs nonsense like this: "In fact, it means that an IT professional who aspires to lead a sizeable team needs the "political" skills to empathise with the ambitions of users but the steely centre to ensure that those ambitions do not blow the core strategy off course." I used to move on to Dilbert and DPM's Diary to get a proper sense of perspective... Articles like that should make the author and subject (frequently one and the same) absolutely squirm with embarrassment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
censorship Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Articles like that should make the author and subject (frequently one and the same) absolutely squirm with embarrassment. Like all your posts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 geeks have their own magazines? Wow... Anyway: http://tr.im/uCiP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alias Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 "In IT terms, I have not cut myself off," he says. He points to key talks he is currently holding with Microsoft's Redmond campus about a long-term relationship. Well he might as well marry them, make it official.. edit for typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La_Dolce_Vita Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 What a load of old flannel. Whenever I used to read a pile of bs nonsense like this: "In fact, it means that an IT professional who aspires to lead a sizeable team needs the "political" skills to empathise with the ambitions of users but the steely centre to ensure that those ambitions do not blow the core strategy off course." I used to move on to Dilbert and DPM's Diary to get a proper sense of perspective... Articles like that should make the author and subject (frequently one and the same) absolutely squirm with embarrassment. Well...isn't all business and office language now full of double-speak, crap metaphors, and 'power' language that quickly becomes cliched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Voice of Reason Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Well, there was a couple of mentions of the IOM in the article but it was really a profile of this Paterson chap. Not much to get "Cavendished" about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthlycurse Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Was the person about which this article was written (and which I clearly have not taken the time to read) the person responsible for the decision to "upgrade" our government PCs from XP to Vista at significant expense (and probably for spending to upgrade the hardware too), at a time when the the Treasury coffers are under strain and the Examiner is telling us things like the numbers of teachers the Dept of Ed can afford to employ may be reducing etc etc? If so.. it is a pity I cannot point that out on the same article as there is no commenting available. Is our government going to "upgrade" to windows 7 from Vista in a few months (at more expense etc etc)? I wonder just what it is that drives the demand for these upgrades.. is running microsoft office and the internet browser SO demanding of fancy desktop widgets and 3-d screen savers that they HAD to upgrade to Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Was the person about which this article was written (and which I clearly have not taken the time to read) the person responsible for the decision to "upgrade" our government PCs from XP to Vista at significant expense (and probably for spending to upgrade the hardware too), at a time when the the Treasury coffers are under strain and the Examiner is telling us things like the numbers of teachers the Dept of Ed can afford to employ may be reducing etc etc? If so.. it is a pity I cannot point that out on the same article as there is no commenting available. Is our government going to "upgrade" to windows 7 from Vista in a few months (at more expense etc etc)? I wonder just what it is that drives the demand for these upgrades.. is running microsoft office and the internet browser SO demanding of fancy desktop widgets and 3-d screen savers that they HAD to upgrade to Vista? Totally left-field here......you're not in IT are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Voice of Reason Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Was the person about which this article was written (and which I clearly have not taken the time to read) the person responsible for the decision to "upgrade" our government PCs from XP to Vista at significant expense (and probably for spending to upgrade the hardware too), at a time when the the Treasury coffers are under strain and the Examiner is telling us things like the numbers of teachers the Dept of Ed can afford to employ may be reducing etc etc? If so.. it is a pity I cannot point that out on the same article as there is no commenting available. Is our government going to "upgrade" to windows 7 from Vista in a few months (at more expense etc etc)? I wonder just what it is that drives the demand for these upgrades.. is running microsoft office and the internet browser SO demanding of fancy desktop widgets and 3-d screen savers that they HAD to upgrade to Vista? Totally left-field here......you're not in IT are you? Given me a headache though, like most things IT related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthlycurse Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Totally left-field here......you're not in IT are you? I deny it completely! I did however remember reading something in IOM online about fuss when the upgrades were announced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Peters Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Hardly hot news surely - online article is datestamped 22 Dec 2008...or has it only just been published in print? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%age Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Juan Turner's views on Facebook were well publicised and appeared on page 5 of the Isle of man Courier this week. also: IoM Newspapers website article I think the reply from Phil Braidwood MHK, the behemoth of parliamentary debate, kind of sums the case up for ISD. Well done JT for standing so well by your words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Ugh! I'm gonna wretch. More like 'Computer Weakly'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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