Re: Bingo
Nope, no machine learning or AI too. Very poor.
Posts by TheDrunkenBakers
18 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2012
HPEeeeeek! Our sales have been decimated by worldwide slowdown, trade wars, say execs
HPE UK shunts cloud biz into London hipster shack amid rebrand
Kaminario salesmen will now be told why they're earning their dosh
FlashRay bang, wallop: NetApp bigwigs play musical chairs
Nimble CEO lifts lid on sales veep saga. It ain't pretty
EMC partners fear rebate dive in new channel programme
EMC chief: Why today's IT channel will soon cease to exist
SolidFire bags blue chip execs, hopes storage street cred will follow
HP: AUTONOMY 'misrepresented' its value by $5 BILLION, calls in SEC
Thursday 22nd November 2012 11:22 GMT
D'Oh
Indeed it is the consultants who prepare the 'books' on these deals, and it is also true that the acquired will wish to present as rosy a picture as possible to the acquirer so as to maximise shareholder value - like a householder standing in front of a crack when a potential buyer is having a viewing.
Thing is, the potential house buyer should have the intelligence to ask the seller to stand a little to the left so as to check to see if cracks are evident and if they get the bums rush, they should have the backbone and intelligence to walk away.
What this demonstrates is that someone, somewhere, at HP was either too stupid to be making decisions of such magnitude that they should not been allowed to or they were so blinkered at the prospect of an acquisition that they were not checking closely enough for cracks.
In both cases, consultants/Autonomess - 1, HP - 0
Thursday 22nd November 2012 11:19 GMT
D'Oh
Indeed it is the consultants who prepare the 'books' on these deals, and it is also true that the acquired will wish to present as rosy a picture as possible to the acquirer so as to maximise shareholder value - like a householder standing in front of a crack when a potential buyer is having a viewing.
Thing is, the potential house buyer should have the intelligence to ask the seller to stand a little to the left so as to check to see if cracks are evident and if they get the bums rush, they should have the backbone and intelligence to walk away.
What this demonstrates is that someone, somewhere, at HP was either too stupid to be making decisions of such magnitude that they should not have been allowed to or they were so blinkered at the prospect of an acquisition that they were not checking closely enough for cracks.
In both cases, consultants/Autonomess - 1, HP - 0
Osborne names UK cities to land £100m broadband bonanza
Thursday 22nd March 2012 09:14 GMT 
Forgotten again.
How utterly rediculous. These cities typically benefit from the old Diamond Cable/Virgin cable infrastructure already and so can already access speeds upwards of 20meg at a low cost, more than enough for 99.99% of households. Companies already pay for high speed leased lines separately.
I live just outside Newark in Nottinghamshire, about 3.5-4 miles from the exchange and get a measley 1.5meg and so accessing internet services other than browsing and the odd iTunes album is a non starter; even watching iPlayer is impossible as peak times. I have an internet TV which I would use for LoveFilm and other services if the connectivty was fast enough.
An uplift to a sensible 5meg would be relatively inexpensive - cross the A1 about half a mile and there is Virgin infrastructure just waiting to be extended.
If the government wants us to be a digital nation with sensible speeds for allcomers then it needs to think about improving rural and semi-rural speeds rather than increasing the already good city speeds.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
