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500 MIllion and Counting
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 07:26:00 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Gray <tom_gray_grc () yahoo com> Date: July 10, 2004 6:00:25 AM EDT To: dave () farber net, tom_gray_grc () yahoo com Subject: 500 MIllion and Counting This may be of interest for your IP list. It is not mentioned directly but this $500 million dollar computer system owned by the Ontario government is incapable of adjusting the social assitance rates. Receipients will be receving two lump sum payments, one this summer and one in the fall, to make up the 3% increase that the government has decided on. How can a computer system cost $500,000,000? Just how can training by itself consume hundreds of millions of dollars? Why if a program cost $500,000,000 to produce does it not work? ============================http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/ Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1089411015907&call_pageid=968332188492&col=9 68793972154
========================== How costly computer sparked a `nightmare' Social services system `inflexible from Day 1,' expert says Government estimates fixing flaws could top $10 million RICHARD BRENNAN AND ROBERT BENZIE QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU It seemed like a good idea at the time. An ideologically driven, cash-strapped Conservative administration wanted to reduce social assistance costs and increase the role of the private sector in government. To that end on Jan. 27, 1997, then premier Mike Harris opted to enter what was touted as an innovative agreement with Andersen Consulting to revamp the Ministry of Community and Social Services' outdated computer system. But a two-year independent study of the $500 million computer system has concluded that it has been seriously flawed from the very beginning and virtually incapable of making timely changes. That became clear when it was learned the system, responsible for distributing welfare and disability benefits to 670,000 Ontarians, is unable to calculate a 3 per cent increase, the first rise in 11 years. It's going to cost at least $10 million to fix the problem $3 million to correct the computer system and an additional $7 million to test it. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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