It’s 2010 and you can’t tell me the Queen doesn’t have a PC, or possibly even a smartphone. Buckingham Palace must have a network and we’d be surprised if Sandringham wasn’t Wi-Fi’d up to its cloisters. Best place for a datacentre? Balmoral. It’s cold enough and the security is excellent.
If disgraced banker Fred Goodwin was worth a knighthood then how come the IT world was almost completely overlooked in the New Year’s Honours list? Apps running a bit slow ma’am? Fancy sorting it out yourself then? This is how revolutions start you know…
OK, sure a few gaming gurus and a Microsoft propeller-head picked up assorted OBEs, MBEs and CBEs – but what of the heroic men and women of our IT departments who are perpetually snowed in by masses of IT operations and overloaded with mountains of monotonous tasks, who, yet, still manage to find time to look after users?
Laugh? We nearly cried…
