Re: EDS DO IT AGAIN


"Martin Davies" <mart2306@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> tony wrote:
>> EDS system not up to benifits claims either, despite the reports on
>> the news they claim the system is working as expected...
>>
>> So who does this computer system serve then?
>
> Likely EDS will be fulfilling its contract. Just a poorly written
> contract.
>
> Maybe if government stopped changing things after the design has been
> agreed it would help.
> Who knows what meddling, what changes on top of changes, will have an
> impact. Oh, and the decision to make a computer system a live one is more
> of a political decision than an IT decision.
> Who rushes these things?
> EDS have some good contract writers - seemingly far better than HM
> Goverment.
>
> Martin <><
>
EDS also get contracts then employ short term contract programmers. If you
dont employ subject experts
then you pay the price in shoddy software. By the time its noticed the
writer has moved on to another company.


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