Did you do this?

[TimberWolf]

What sort of software dev costs £121,000,000

I mean, it's not sending men to Mars is it? It's running some payroll and holidays.

Government IT projects are money laundering rackets IMO; ways of extracting money from the public purse and making it clean, carried out by mates of politicians in exchange for directorships, etc after political office.

[Moscow Mule]

Government IT projects are money laundering rackets IMO;

SAP

[AlfredJPruffock]

Government IT projects are money laundering rackets IMO; ways of extracting money from the public purse and making it clean, carried out by mates of politicians in exchange for directorships, etc after political office.

So in a way its a mechanism for the distribution of wealth.

Sorted.

[SirSickboy]

Workers were left struggling with an IT system that issued messages in German, wrongly recorded that staff were off sick and randomly confiscated staff holidays.

By displaying a brightly colored beach towel icon?

[dinker]

This reminds of the Criminal Asset Confiscation Office (?) which costs more to run than the assets it confiscates.

[shaunbhoy]

I think I hear the phrase "Lessons must be learned" marching towards the debacle with ill-deserved confidence.

[Alf W]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05...s_costs_money/

More 'cutting edge' reporting from the nasty little right wing rag.

[TheFaQQer]

What sort of software dev costs £121,000,000

I mean, it's not sending men to Mars is it? It's running some payroll and holidays.

SAP.

HTH.

[ratewhore]

It was indeed

Isn't there a radio button somewhere to change the language?

[EternalOptimist]

Isn't there a radio button somewhere to change the language?

yup, but not on the msaccess front end they were using