Mythical?
For the British Space Industry to be mythical it would have not not exist, it does and is alive and well, just not high profile. We build Satellites, components and payloads.
Posts by Otto is a bear.
453 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2012
UK chancellor dishes extra £60m to European Space Agency
RIM good for secret jobs: BlackBerry 10 cleared for Restricted data
Thursday 8th November 2012 16:25 GMT
Mmmmm
Selectra are fine, if you've got money to burn, or only need small numbers, but blackberry caters for those organisations who need equip large numbers of employees at a reasonable cost, and integrate with Exchange and alike. Secure infrastructures do not come cheap, and lots of government bodies need them, without the squirrel community pricing.
I'd expect there will be a secure android at some point, possibly even a Windows variant, but they won't be any cheaper, nor will they be cutting edge OS. This is because once you have your cutting edge OS, to secure it you need to spend a lot of time and effort getting it accredited to whatever level require, by which time you no longer have a cutting edge OS.
BTW. I have both iPhone and Blackberry, I wouldn't swap my iPhone for personal use, or my blackberry for business.
Sacked British RIM staffers to get minimum legal payout
Friday 19th October 2012 12:30 GMT
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
I remember in the 1980's when working on a joint project with employees of a then well known SI, my colleagues from that company being furious that their MD had turned up in a brand new Ferrari and promptly announced major redundancies due to poor company performance.
That company no longer exists, having been long subsumed into a US conglomerate. Can you guess who they were.
I worked then for a French SI then, which, considering its size, unbelievably still exists as an independent, well done Alten.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
