Re: Database design.

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 6/6/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Brian Loe wrote:
> >
> > > Well tell me this, where are the requirements, or specs, for the
> > > proposed system your country is planning?
> >
> > I don't know.
>
> Kind of makes it difficult to say what you'll need then, don't you think?

No - part of what you have to do for this, is to think of what would be 
needed and could be provided at a reasonable cost.

The problem with providing the last 1% of the "system requirement" as 
requested by the use, is that it costs a disproportionate fraction of the 
total cost.

 
> If its even half as advanced as the US proposed national health care
> database, 40 billion sounds a lot less over the top. Then again, it
> depends on what that money is supposed to include. Often our
> government says the "system is going to cost.." <fill in number> but
> they're actually talking about everything like hardware, software,
> engineers, developers, data entry, network/infrastructure, process and
> form creation, etc. - and not just to start but for several years as
> the system is ramped up.
 

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