Today, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the Cable tapes, far from triggering the business secretary's demise, may yet prove his salvation.
The San Francisco-based firm has built a stake in the company and become its biggest investor, triggering speculation that the business could be broken up.
What triggered me was the business aspect.
Second, since IntentScopes are observable, developers can specify complex conditions that will trigger an execution of the business logic, without having to write complicated queries and event processing schemes.
So why is it so hard for business owners, to pull the trigger on business solutions?
The records show that a lawyer for the company pleaded with officials, saying that if they brought disciplinary action, the consequences "would be fatal to the business" and trigger a "catastrophe".
The exchange is under threat of liquidation after a Tokyo court dismissed an attempt to resuscitate the business this week, triggering a last-ditch attempt to save the platform.
Sproxton might still be happy to drive a relatively dull saloon car but has the success of the business never triggered thoughts of capitalising on a flotation, like the recent one at Dreamworks? "In the mid-80s a number of ad agencies went public and kind of lost the plot because their creative energies were subsumed to shareholder value," he says.
The feature joins several other customer service features, like automated greeting messages that are triggered when the customer pings the business account, or "away" messages that can be scheduled for those times when you're not able to immediately answer new inquiries.
But this should not stop Peter Mandelson, the business secretary, from triggering an inquiry under the 2002 Enterprise Act.
