Eg:
We need to upgrade to new. What you know this doesn’t work with the new OS and we can’t fix this business crucial application

Also how they was huge wholes in software and systems

“I have a cunning plan”

But yes, it would work if there was ever a complete elimination of risk management from the government.

Weiging in on the email saga, $200m at $22k per email means that either the whole system only ever had 9k emails processed (ours does that daily, and then some) or they only got 9k users out of some 200k switched over before it was kyboshed.

Here’s a plan – switch to multiple *nix SMTP servers per department (e.g. Qld Health, EQ, etc.), hand off all processed and filtered mail traffic to localised *nix IMAP servers for each workgroup (e.g. per school, per business unit, per hospital, etc.), and serve them all a single LDAP service with the whole of government listed employees. The LDAP service would have multpile levels of management and admin rights (or even better, tie it to payroll as it’s the first thing updated when people start/finish a job) so as to keep it up to date with distributed management. – Cost? About $50m, inc. all the time to configure and deploy. Oh, and ongong licenses, $nil!

Donut = $6b
Hole = over 10 years

Donut = duplicated systems
Hole = because they all use Office

Donut = mismatched systems
Hole = because a system used for Health will be useless for Parks & Wildlife

Donut = dumping Whole Of Govt email system
Hole = because nobody thought of putting everyone on Gmail

Its trash talking the opposition to make themselves look better when reality is vastly different. I just hope the public realises that.

Working in the ATO I saw the debacle of our Change Program being implemented, yet its now hailed as a major success. Despite costing twice what was planned.

Best things they can do is Hire Quality IT and Management people sack all IT Consultancies and only allow ministers to have a Yes or No say

Do tell Ros!? She’ll be a fan of the NBN if she keeps talking that way ;o)

But seriously, who cares why QLD I.T. is broken or who broke it ( considering how well the LNP did in the election, I’d suggest Queenslanders already know who broke things), what we really want to know is what is the _current_ government doing to make things better…

I suspect they are just making up numbers to dfiscredit their predescessor, its easy to do with I.T. because the avergae bloke in the street doesnt understand.

^This. Sure, I’m certain there are major issues with the system and I’m sure it’s been poorly handled. Fact is, if they just stopped complaining about it and did something, as Renai has said…..there wouldn’t be so much to complain about. Every government in the world has out of date software and extended support software. That’s normal. But of course, complaining about it and making a big deal scores political points.

$6.2 Billion? Sure, over how many years? 5? 10? Doesn’t seem quite so big then, does it?

As I said, I’m sure there are issues and I’m not downplaying them. But the fact is, IT itself has ALWAYS been a major issue for governments. Historically, they get it hopelessly wrong. Move on, stop complaining and fix it.

Leave the political blame game for Federal politics. After all, they do enough of it for 10 governments/oppositions…..

Criteria would include setting up development team and offices in Queensland to kick start silicon valley type industry, Cloud enable, universities could participate

Would any Government in Oz have the courage and vision to implement this is the big question

So, rather than worry about that audit, perhaps the audit undertaken by the Bligh government could be argued to have been deliberately under-estimated. These auditors also then had the job of “fixing the issue” after that report was produced. Clearly there was nothing dubious about that whole process.

“Queensland successfully delivers major ICT project”

Nobody would believe that for a second.

So QLD’s part of the NBN will cost $7.2Bil (and make a 7% profit), and they are saying they are prepared to spend upto $6 Bil just on public servents I.T. and i bet that doesnt evne include Fiber to the Building.

Libs r dumb

If your right is the 200k public servents in QLD, then this 6 Bill fix equates to $30,000 per employee.

How can the QLD liberal party say ALP was bad if they are considering spending $30 thousand dollars per employee on IT.

I’ve never worked in a corporate environment, I’m a work from home programmer which I’ve been doing for a long time. I know I’m probably out of touch but does anyone else think these amounts are ridiculous.

One of my friends wrote a Dos payroll system for Telstra (then the PMG I think). I doubt he got enough to pay for a very modest car.

Example, headlines:
QLD IT BORKED
LNP APPOINTS 14 MINISTERS FOR IT
QLD IT BEYOND HELP
25TH IT MINISTER APPOINTED
QLD IT ON IT’S LAST LEGS
QLD TO REVERT TO PEN AND PAPER, ABACUS
NEW ABACUS SYSTEM RIDDLED WITH ERRORS, ‘BLIGH GOVERNMENT TO BLAME’ SAYS MINISTER

annnd so on :P