This week the Insider has an air of finality about it. Moves are afoot to get the monkeys out of the office and hand the creation of this wonderful missive about monkeys and IT over to someone who actually has more than a passing interest in the industry that brought us databases, and, er, middleware solutions.
Where the monkeys will go, we don't know. Maybe they will turn up at your offices like that dog in the TV show The Littlest Hobo, maybe they will just leap on you as you exit your train late at night on a darkened railway station platform.
However, what we do know is that the only way they would get back into this office is if someone attached them to the front of a missile and fired it through one of the upstairs windows. Reception has been briefed and should any of our non-opposable thumb'd brothers try to re-enter the building the shutters will come down faster than our eyelids in a briefing about service-oriented architectures.
Good luck fellas.
News
Government to poll the UK on
next-generation networks
Stevie-boy Timms, or to give him the name the monkeys had to repeatedly
delete out of all the copy associated with this story, the Rt Hon Minister of
State for Competitiveness, Stephen Timms MP, will chair a summit meeting on the
UK's use of fibre internet connectivity. Timms will try and find out exactly how
well established high-speed connections are in the UK. We can tell him now. Not
very well at all. Do we win five pounds?
More news
OpenOffice adds enhancements
The OpenOffice community has released version 2.3 of its open-source
productivity suite, adding numerous improvements including a major revamp of the
Chart module used across many of the suite's applications. The free-to-download
rival for Microsoft's Office still has no version of Clippy, the animated git
that we came to know and love. Mind you, since Microsoft dropped him we dread to
think what turns his career has taken. "Will annoy you with comments about
letter writing for food" anyone?
More, more news
New Nokia business phone makes
convergence push
Nokia has unveiled a new corporate phone handset. The Nokia E51, available
from the fourth quarter 2007, is a traditional candy-bar design that features 3G
and Wi-Fi support, as well as closer integration with IP telephony
infrastructure from vendors such as Cisco and Alcatel. If you do roll them out
to your staff you can try and pretend that it is an iPhone. Not everyone will
know what they look like.
Comment:
Will Silverlight shine as Windows
fades?
Tim Anderson does not have a beard or white coat, but he might as well have.
The man is all over developer conferences like the developers are over the
buffet table as soon as lunch is served. This week, he was at Microsoft's Mix
07, and boy did he have some fun!
Podcast:
Dave Bailey and Phil Muncaster discuss Stephen Timms' plans to sit in a big
chair and talk about broadband. Later, Alan Titchmarsh joins the boys in the
studio to discuss his long and fascinating career in anything but IT.
Comment:
Business Green blog
The business green gang have chartered a plane and headed off somewhere miles
away. We presume that they are carbon neutralising the journey, but we can't be
sure. We printed off their email and chucked it in the bin.
Lem Bingley blog
Lem is blowing his, and our own trumpets. View this blog at your own discretion.
Sneak blog
Sneak on the IBM'ers that are striking in Second Life. What's the matter with a
real strike? Too cold out there for ya?
