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To picturesque Wapping, where unrest among hacks and techies about recent IT cuts at News International is bubbling following a 24-hour email outage yesterday that crippled newsrooms and commercial operations alike. Cast in the role of villain is CIO Andrew Hickey, the man responsible for a broad IT outsourcing deal in …

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  1. gimbal
    WTF?

    In other words...

    .... the honeymoon is over, but the suit doesn't realize it yet?

    Oh if only Hickey had an army of marketroids to deploy, to us, so in order to decypher for us, every detail of his cryptic business-looking nonsense speak. Thanks for the attempt though, Reg, I guess that's what one could imagine he meant.

  2. Glen Turner 666
    FAIL

    No comment, from a news organisation

    "..but refused to discuss the cause further or make any other comment."

    Oh, I just love it when a media corporation slams down the shutters during bad news. The sweet smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

  3. z0mb13e
    WTF?

    Disaster recovery that relied on AD?

    WTF kind of disaster recovery system is tied into Active Directory? That's just a disaster waiting to happen...

  4. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    An experiment gone horribly wrong

    I work at News International and I can tell you the outsourcing of IT to India was an experiment that went horribly wrong. Probably an insider deal too.

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