RE: Air Force

I'd be willing to bet all these cost overruns are the result of PEOPLE not the software or hardware used to implement the processes.


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From: Paul Nelson [mailto:nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:27 AM
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Subject: RE: Air Force

Heh. Oracle took my client for only $16 million. The client stayed on the iSeries and added another.

Paul Nelson
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Subject: Re: Air Force

from the article:

The software initiative, called the Expeditionary Combat Support
System,

was supposed to manage logistics using software from Oracle. In 2006, the Air Force announced that it had awarded a $628 million contract to the Computer Sciences Corporation to serve as lead system integrator; its job would be to "configure, deploy and conduct training and change management activities" before the launch.

Strange, I think I have heard this somewhere else.
Oracle plus gobs of money, multiplied by time, equals a "wicked problem"






On 12/11/2012 9:11 AM, Raul A. Jager W. wrote:

I read an article in NYT about a failed "software upgrade" but there
is no details about what was going to be replaced by what.
It will be very interesting to know the details about the "upgrade".

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/technology/air-force-stumbles-over-softwar
e-modernization-project.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121209

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