It's not just Victoria. The QLD government IT projects 9ver recent years have also been rolled gold catastrophes
On Wed, 23 Oct. 2019, 11:24 am Greg Keogh, <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting front page article in The Age newspaper today > <https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/fines-victoria-system-collapses-leaving-massive-hole-in-state-budget-20191022-p5333d.html> > about a Victorian government IT disaster. IT disasters are routine (I'm > sure we've all caused a few!) but it's interesting that they actually name > the software as VIEW from a company called Civica. The article is a bit > vague about what's actually wrong, it just says "[it] doesn't work", "the > system was absolute chaos" and systems are not "talking to" their > computers. Does anyone have inside gossip about what really happened? > > There was another vast IT disaster a few years ago related to the > education system I think, where dodgy contracts were being awarded to > mates, and I think the loss ran into the hundreds of millions. That story > vanished from the news and I never found out what happened. > > *Greg K* >
