Myki in Vic should get a notable mention... ticketing system for trams and trains that was the same price as building sending a couple of Opportunity Rovers to Mars.
David Connors [email protected] | M +61 417 189 363 Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 19:50, Grant Maw <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, <[email protected]> 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* >> >
