Posted in Security on July 17th, 2005 Comments Off
A good story (with a sad context) from my readings of and old Telegraph:
An LCH Clearnet official explains. “We act as a central counterparty to, amongst others, trades on the electronic order book of the London Stock Exchange, trades on the International Petroleum Exchange, on the London Metals Exchange and on Euronext Liffe.
We also clear […]
Posted in Delivery on July 17th, 2005 Comments Off
Yet another article, this time from CIO Magazine, on the eternal topic of why IT is different:
“When I build a new parts plant, I’m told how much it’s going to cost, how long it’s going to take and what it will do when it’s done. Sometimes we have problems, but the people in charge come […]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10th, 2005 Comments Off
For some time I’ve had an ongoing discussion with one of my friend, whose view was that it is availability of new technology that drives economic improvements considering how many incompetent workers are in today’s organisations. We did not get to any conclusion with me disagreeing, but now I have some data to support my […]