> The current budget for West Sussex County Council’s long-running Oracle project is £27 million, more than ten times the £2.6 million originally budgeted when it started nearly seven years ago.
> “The total estimated cost for the programme is approximately £41million. This is comprised of the initial £14.07 million spent during the earlier phases and the current approved budget of £27.048 million for the programme’s completion.”
A couple years ago, Birmingham council declared bankruptcy after a project from Oracle rose in costs from an expected £11 million to just over £200 million. All to do a bad job of automating payroll.
Time to go open-source. I despised programming with Oracle 20 years ago for the excessive pay walls they put up around their products. There’s no reason for Larry Ellison to be a billionaire, and UK councils going bankrupt other than greed.
Literally letting our councils go bankrupt to make American companies feel better about their quarterlies.
What’s INSANE to me is that gov could in house this and build systems that every council uses. Why do they need bespoke but not bespoke automated payroll systems etc. PER council.
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> The current budget for West Sussex County Council’s long-running Oracle project is £27 million, more than ten times the £2.6 million originally budgeted when it started nearly seven years ago.
> “The total estimated cost for the programme is approximately £41million. This is comprised of the initial £14.07 million spent during the earlier phases and the current approved budget of £27.048 million for the programme’s completion.”
A couple years ago, Birmingham council declared bankruptcy after a project from Oracle rose in costs from an expected £11 million to just over £200 million. All to do a bad job of automating payroll.
Time to go open-source. I despised programming with Oracle 20 years ago for the excessive pay walls they put up around their products. There’s no reason for Larry Ellison to be a billionaire, and UK councils going bankrupt other than greed.
Literally letting our councils go bankrupt to make American companies feel better about their quarterlies.
What’s INSANE to me is that gov could in house this and build systems that every council uses. Why do they need bespoke but not bespoke automated payroll systems etc. PER council.