Friday's Channel 4 news - NHS IT systems

[Fleetwood]

WTF's wrong with Yahoo,Hotmail or Gmail?

[Clog II The Avenger]

Thanks TinTin. I'd forgotten about those things. I believe that problems with the projects are having interesting effects in the Stock Market:

NHS deal worries halve iSoft shares

It would seem that plenty of money is being spent:
The nine projects at the heart of NHS IT (Silicon.com)

The 11 companies that run 80 per cent of government IT

I was working on a project with one of the above on a government contract to upgrade the network infrastructure hardware and OS. Part of the contract with the government department was to replace the desktop PCs and an upgrade them in two years time. The government department was not specific with any details so the consultancy took away the PCs, then took out the CD RWs and replaced them with CD ROMs. The PCs were then swapped with various ones in other departments. The upgrade after two years was to have the CD RWs fitted. Needless to say the government department was not happy but they couldn’t do anything out it because the contract was not specific on what was meant by “replacing PCs” and “upgrading PCs”

[Joe Black]

A not untypical experience of the public sector:

Decide to develop 20-30 eGov projects in Java. Recruit loads of consultants. Send permies off on training to help out etc.

Six months later scrap everything and decide Microsoft is the way forward. Cue more training for permies and loads of new consultants.

Nine months later scrap everything again and decide Java/BEA is the way forward. Cue more training for permies and loads of new consultants.

One year later not a single project in production and the EU about to breath down said dept's neck because the UK won't be in compliance with other EU systems, what shall you do?...yep, bring all those MS consultants back and start working on the old code again...

[BobTheCrate]

And guess who else amongst New Lie has or had its nose in this Andersen trough ...



Ed Balls. Another nasty, slimy deceitful piece of work of the same ilk as Milliband. Makes my skin crawl every time this poisonous creep opens its lieing, slathering mouth.

[Fleetwood]

poisonous

[The Lone Gunman]

poisonous

poisoneress perhaps? no no I am just being silly

[hyperD]

And guess who else amongst New Lie has or had its nose in this Andersen trough ...



Ed Balls. Another nasty, slimy deceitful piece of work of the same ilk as Milliband. Makes my skin crawl every time this poisonous creep opens its lieing, slathering mouth.

Yes, belly-crawling piece of lying filth. One of brown's henchman who has now moved to being an MP, obviously in readiness for brown's ascension to captain of a sinking ship.