>In Denmark one of the political parties wants to disband the army, navy, airforce etc. and replace them with an answering machine saying "We surrender".
They've got LiBDems in Denmark as well?
They've got LiBDems in Denmark as well?
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His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain... -
Come on chaps, let's get it in perspective. There's no problem, real or imagined.
Allegedly...
You may remember the problems with an MOD network sinking under the weight of that spoof Amarillo video a while back? That was DII. It also has been built with about 4Tb of mail storage to cater for about 40Tb of legacy data. You would not believe the technical answer to that one, but it centres on Read-only storage. And I won't even begin to criticise the non-redundant technical design.
There were two primary consortia in the final bid process, one with EDS and one with EDS. The third one, the one without EDS, dropped out early.
The contract they are working to is a further update of an existing, 11 year old, 750-odd page contract for the support of an NT4 system that can be read to say anything you want it to say.
(An example - I was in a senior meeting with an EDS exec who claimed they were doing Problem Management because they had agreed to redefine the ITIL term "Problem". He got upset when I pointed out that in that case I was using the original ITIL definition - the one on page three in the ITIL books - and so no, you aren't doing problem management and please can we have a rebate on that proportion of your charges.)
The perfomance measures were so wooly and incomplete that MOD are paying £1m a month support costs with no idea what they are getting in return.
I could go on. Sadly, none of the farrago of chaos and incompetence will ever reach the outside world. Official secrets, doncherknow...Blog? What blog...?
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