"The Government Gateway is an enterprise facility, enabling services delivered by a number of public sector organisations including HMRC, DWP and local authorities."

"I wonder how many people have subconsciously slipped into the despair of job dissatisfaction due to overly restrictive IT policies, or just a general hatred of the systems driving communications."

"That attitide in IT made sense when enterprise IT lead innovation over consumer IT. But, now consumer IT is where all the innovation happens, and has happened, for the past few years."

"In an Enterprise Web 2.0 world, companies selling web based business management and business productivity tools can and will circumvent Enterprise IT departments, and start selling directly to the end users."

"This move towards service development pretty much demands that you move towards a service oriented organisation."

"During the meeting: Oracle integration? We've got that. After the meeting: What's Oracle?"

"While this is a fine way to build software, it isn't a fine way to solve core problems. For that, I suggest we add step 1.5: evaluate the process."

I certainly would. Note to self: grow beard, buy pipe.

Harsh.

"Business executives are portrayed as gutless bullies, failing to hire competent IT leaders and using outsourcing as a weapon of intimidation rather than a tool for improving business."