According to an impeccable source, Rosemary Rock-Evans of research outfit Ovum asked for an escort (security, that is) before she gave her paper to the IIR "Implementing CORBA in telecoms" conference in Dublin this week. Could it be that she realised her remarks would not be well-received by the audience of hard-core CORBA developers, each of whom had paid £1,000 to be there? Her facts and opinions did not correlate very well with the experience of her audience, and there was indeed a certain frisson as she left. No doubt she'll have every reason to be worried about suspicious-looking objects in the future...