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- Failed Aspirations at Project Aspire
- According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, Floridas Project Aspire has been stopped in mid-track. From the article:A top Florida official has suspended work on Project Aspire, a proposed financial management system for state government. Alex Sink, the states chief financial officer, said in a release that the project was...
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Election Troubles
- The Anchorage Daily News reports about technical problems with new Diebold voting machines. From the article:Problems with Alaska’s new touchscreen voting machines slowed election returns Tuesday and caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload vote totals from several precincts across the state. Election coordinator Lauri Wilson said several...
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Medical Emergency
- CIO magazine has an article written by Allan Holmes, describing Maines attempt to develop and deploy a web-based system for processing Medicaid claims and payments. The project was started back in 2001, to help the state to modernize its systems and also ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and...
- Blog posts 2006-04-23
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- Small signs of a health care deal forming
- what deal?The New York Times is the least reliable source of information.If you want signs of a deal in the making just watch the conservatives talk shows: O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, etc as real Americans do.They would tell us if there are any talks about it. RE: Small signs of a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Activists push city endorsements of open source
- Activists push city endorsements of open sourcegreat for vancouver i hope that the rest of the country will follow ... neither fighting it nor joining it, yetbut rather, observing.A large-scale implementation should be interesting, see how it matures and what issues they face.Hopefully they have a good project manager that...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
- Alfresco 3.1 offers parity with enterprise rivals
- Alfresco's open source enterprise content management system is now fully enterprise ready, and the timing couldn't be better, exes say. Alfresco 3.1, which was released today, has reached parity with and in some ways exceeds leading document management platforms such as Documentum and Filenet and leading web...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Oracle puts Salesforce.com in its sights
- Oracle's fiscal second quarter conference call was interesting on a couple of fronts. Here are a few observations: No. 1: Oracle has a new whipping boy: Salesforce.com. Check out CEO Larry Ellison's comments about Salesforce.com, which totaled eight mentions (not quite SAP territory,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle room
- Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomIt's what the President should have been requiring alreadyThis really isn't what Congress should be doing, but there should be such rules.RE: Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomA little accountability goes a long way. I just hope the legislation is...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Words of Doom: "We have new software"
- Words of Doom: "We have new software"This isn't "journalism"It's a Comment whose value is measured by interest and not content. Some people are actually paid to give their opinions these days.Ironic that there are simultaneous efforts to pay people for venting and explaining and to prevent people from being...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- What OpenOffice site crash means
- What OpenOffice site crash meansSo, I should pay for free software so I don't pay Microsoft?It's not for everyone. However, the reason Microsoft has more robust features is because they spend more money on it. That money is funded by higher prices for their software. If you or your company...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- IT catfight in Portland, OR
- IT catfight in Portland, ORSacraficeMy company just finished an ERP release, successfully!It takes whole company sacrifice and requires separate Change Management groups to come to power to lead staff and executive management with the project and the temporary sacrifices in business process and political ownership. It takes years of...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed
- A leaked Pentagon report said Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, failed to "provide the requisite definition and discipline to properly plan and control complex, multi-billion dollar weapon systems acquisition programs." This allegation casts doubt on Lockheed's ability to manage large programs, including major IT...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- 6 reasons government IT projects fail
- Failed government IT projects occur with alarming frequency. In some respects, these failures share much in common with botched private sector initiatives. For example, failures in both environments are primarily a function of poor management rather than bad technology. Still, there are important differences between government...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Funding Integration: Securing Adequate Funding for Your CJIS Initiative
- The process of applying for and winning federal grants for information technology has become time-consuming, complicated and highly competitive. While the federal government offers many excellent funding opportunities to agencies around the country, it cannot be counted on to maintain projects that span a number of years. Previously overlooked non-traditional...
- White papers 2008-05-22
- UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis
- The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Unixfication II
- Unixfication IIUnixification II: The AwakeningSure, I think that some unixification is good for the sake of interoperability but I like having different OSs to rely on--call them niche or whatever but there is even a place for Windows...the only non-Unix OS left.I don't want just one open source OS, no...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- A Semantic view of the Wikipedia for Data idea
- Last week CNet's Dan Farber picked up on a post by ex-Googler Bret Taylor, entitled 'We need a Wikipedia for data.' Sarah Perez followed up on ReadWriteWeb with a useful roundup in 'Where to find Open Data on the Web,' and the usual flurry of interested individuals commented on each....
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- The Open Source Commandments
- Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened
- Heathrow T5 failure: What really happenedTony BlairThis is typical of modern Britain. All show. All glitz. 100% image and 0% substance. This is the legacy of Tony who turned Britain from a country proud of its merit into one only concerned with the next news story and to hell with...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
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