Myki is another product bought from overseas I heard. From one of the Scandinavian countries I think. Managed by NTTData from memory, could be wrong, don’t quote me.
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 10:42, David Connors <da...@connors.com> wrote: > 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 > da...@connors.com | 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 <grant....@gmail.com> 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, <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* >>> >>
