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"Greatest IT Disaster in History"
Leo McKinstry (Daily Mail) writes about a project in the UK that is being deployed for the National Health Service (NHS). From the article:The Government warned that its flagship computer network for the NHS, which was meant to go on-line at the end of last year, is still hopelessly behind schedule and could end up costing over £20billion, more than £14 billion above its original estimate.
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Paul McDougall writes in InformationWeek, “The project, run by Accenture, Computer Sciences Corp., Fujitsu, and others, has been plagued by software problems and resistance from physicians.”
Well, I guess it seems that the US government doesn’t have a monopoly on screwed-up IT projects.
UPDATE 8/30/06: See this link for the latest news on this never-ending saga.
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