By Jo Best
Published: Friday 09 February 2007
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Name
Simon Allen
Location
Hertfordshire, UK
Occupation
Voice Systems Consultant
Comment
Simon from Cumbria says it all.
Firstly: Big companies are NOT going to put CIOs on the board. They tried it in the 80s and stopped in the early 90s. When I was doing a contract for an extremely well known high street electrical and PC retailer in the mid-90s, our director of IT was demoted. He used to report direct to the CEO but then made to report to the Finance Director. This demoted and demotivated 100% of the IT staff.
Secondly: Since CEOs and CFOs can buy a wireless router at Tesco - how hard can it be?
Lastly: I agree that Erlang is the foundation of all understanding BUT Voice Comms as a separate discipline is dead and buried.
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