August 2006

A wiki would be better for version control but at the end of the day whether it is Writely, Zoho or wiki, it is still a word processing style app. So doesn’t that render Word largely irrelevant for any situation where collaboration is required (and quite a few where it isn’t)?… The difference is that most of the online services are an order of magnitude less difficult to learn than Office – which is made even more difficult by the introduction of things like the Ribbon etc. And to say there are no enterprise examples of new tech in this space is not true.

Things move real fast in this environment and no sooner had I penned the job offering post than Neville Hobson, communications specialist and co-host of For Immediate Release pinged me to say that the story is part of their latest show…. FIR invites feedback and I took the opportunity to record a 2 minute segment where I flesh out some of the correspondence and calls I’d received around the story and to emphasise there is genuine hope for the displaced employees.

The famous line spoken by Yozzer Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff still resonates today when it comes to job seeking but I was pleasantly surprised to find that following the Pegasus cull, other software vendors are looking to fill places…. Contact Tony Parsons ebdex: Head of Sales and Head of Development, other posts – jobs listings on websiteBTW – expect Systems Union to announce substantial job cuts.