A recent survey of local attitudes to grid computing, carried out by a major company, asked IT and business respondents to say whether they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: our IT infrastructure is no more of a problem to us than the rest of the organisation's business infrastructure.

Apparently, 16 percent of the IT respondents agreed with this statement (out of five alternatives). While this could be taken as meaning some IT managers view their department's infrastructure rather negatively, some business respondents (less than 10%) agreed with this statement: our IT capabilities are a major hurdle to our competitiveness in the market.

But at least no business respondents agreed with the first statement, the one about their IT infrastructure being no more of a problem to us than the rest of the organization's business infrastructure.

Fear and loathing in the blogosphere

Some people still don't quite get the internet ' or maybe it's just fear. E-tales recently came across a comment from one Brian Williams, big NBC anchorman, who is not at all keen on blogging.