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[News] Taxpayers Pay the Price of Proprietary Software Failures

  • Subject: [News] Taxpayers Pay the Price of Proprietary Software Failures
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:51:52 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
How to blow $3 million in taxpayer funds

,----[ Quote ]
| No, the biggest problem, and yet also the easiest to solve, is the $3 million 
| license fee. Any open-source solution would have allowed the PCAOB to spend 
| nothing upfront and simply pay for support, thereby "amortizing" its risk.  
| (Related to this, though not analogous, is the fact that smaller IT projects 
| succeed much more often than large ones do, according to research from The 
| Standish Group.)    
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9751606-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog

Speaking of throwing money away, someone chose a legal firm for his/her
software needs.

Genisys Software Chooses SCO Mobile to Deliver Enterprise Vertical Solutions to
the Apple iPhone

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070730/lam073.html?.v=98

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