[Margaret Pilkington]

Exile, I am flattered that you attributed that post to me, but ti was Monkey Hanger....and I answered it with the information about the sage group.

I would categorise Neil ferguson as a bumhole....well except there is some use in a bumhole...this man is only useful as a failure and a very bad example of what happens when you let someone who is inept, play with algorithms...because that is all he was doing...he was not really engaging his thought processes.
this is what IT folk call a SISO.....sh!t in, sh!t out