BBC's DQF failing to boot up?

Monkey hears some BBC staff are feeling rather cynical about director general Mark Thompson's Delivering Quality First initiative – dubbed "Duck, Quit or Fire" by one wag – designed to hear how the footsoldiers think the corporation should cope with the cuts. Apparently, as of Tuesday, just 153 people out of the 18,000 or so public service staff at the Beeb had bothered answering Thommo's question about what one thing could they do to make their job simpler. And although the BBC says 1,500 people have signed up to its in-house Yammer community site, Monkey hears just 757 have signed up to the DQF group. However, one interesting thing has emerged. One of the most popular suggestions people have put forward to make their life easier is to change the BBC's technology provider, Siemens. And that was before the BBC had a row with Siemens after its website fell off a cliff for an hour on Tuesday night.