This week's big, although not unexpected, news was the announcement that HISA and ACHI were thinking of getting together for a bit of formal cooperation. The move has been rumoured for some years, and it makes a lot of sense. For such a small industry there are quite a few different professional organisations if you include HIMAA and wider groups like AIIA as well.

ACHI has always considered itself the peak as an academic college but it has suffered in the past from a lack of administrative support, relying as it does almost entirely on volunteers. HISA on the other hand has an extremely good organisational structure and has proved itself adept at managing the various conferences and local networking events it runs.