Which copy of the file is the real one?
EVENT A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record. David Gordon David Gordon Published tue 29 Sep 2026 // 09:00 UTC EVENT: Somewhere in your organisation right now, somebody is trying to work out which of four copies of a file is the current one. They will probably get it right, after twenty minutes and a message to a colleague in another time zone, and nobody will log the twenty minutes.That is what it costs to run distributed teams on file infrastructure built for an office, and most organisations have stopped noticing.
- ▪EVENT A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.
- ▪David Gordon David Gordon Published tue 29 Sep 2026 // 09:00 UTC EVENT: Somewhere in your organisation right now, somebody is trying to work out which of four copies of a file is the current one.
- ▪They will probably get it right, after twenty minutes and a message to a colleague in another time zone, and nobody will log the twenty minutes.That is what it costs to run distributed teams on file infrastructure built for an office, and m
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| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200 |
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