[LRUG] This can't be right...

[Chris Parsons]

On 9 Aug 2007, at 09:54, Daniel Lucraft wrote:

> Here's the deal. The Ministry of Justice orders an application from  
> EDS
> to track prisoner's parole status nationally. Requirements:
> (1) 300,000 prisoners to track.
> (2) 70,000 users total, spread around the country.
>
> EDS bill?   £945m.
>
> WTF? Anyone have any comments on this? How is that possible?

I know, it's absolutely insane. You could build something like this  
for 10,000th of the price. It's almost worth getting ISO9001  
certified so that you can start getting some of these contracts.

When (if) government clues onto how much cheaper good software can  
be, however, I'm not sure the ramifications are that good ("Hey, look  
how affordable bureaucracy just got! Let's build 1000 extra features  
in to *really* keep track of everyone!")

Chris

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