Slimy Bastards if you ask me. This does not surprise me in the least.
Could it be that HP management , having lost the position of largest PC maker to Lenovo, is looking to throw our attention away from their incompetence.
I wonder if there will be any client fallout at either Deloitte or KPMG for this. Probably not...
Maybe HP is just trying to blame it on them? Who knows!
Way to go journalistic impartiality at the BBC.
Their own Director-General just had to resign after a grilling by BBC journalists on BBC programmes. If they'll do that to their own boss, some guy from Autonomy has 0 chance of special treatment.
The Google Appliance we pretty much plugged in and let it do it's thing. After a few days it was giving excellent results on our massive (80,000 people) company intranet.
The Autonomy server had to be constantly tweaked and fiddled with to even get it near to the relevance of the results.
Unfortunately, Autonomy had flogged a loads of licenses to another part of the business for peanuts, so we had to go with their inferior product.
Over the last 10 years technology like the web, podcasts, home broadband, iPlayer etc have had a lot of impact on the BBC. It makes sense to have someone on the board who has an engineering background and experience managing complex technology projects.
They seem to have a wide range of people from different backgrounds and industries. It's a non executive role, so I assume it's more for 'experience and wisdom' in their respective fields and expertise than anything else.
He's clearly there to wield influence. What other possible reason?
Well it such a big story now, they can hardly not run with it can they?
> Why would they explicitly mention his connection with the BBC?
Again, because they have to. I find it fascinating that private industry leaders would be involved, non-executive or otherwise, in the running of a state broadcasting company. The BBC is spending British taxpayer's money after all. Does not seem impartial.
There used to be funding from the Foreign Office for BBC World Service, but that has now ended. There's a tiny payment from Department of Work and Pensions to cover the discount for people over 70.
What other tax-payer money is used for the BBC?
License fee.
Call it tax-like, but it is not a tax, and mistaken terminology is unhelpful when campaigning to change the licence fee.
The real difference between VAT and the TV licence is that VAT goes to the government via the Inland Revenue (?), while the TV licence goes to the BBC via Capita. Because it doesn't go to the government it's not a tax. I've already said it's tax-like.