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Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million Fix 418

Posted by timothy from the too-big-to-not-fail dept.
jaroslav writes "The University of Wisconsin is attempting to update a payroll system they have had in place since 1975, but spent $28.4 million in a 2004 attempt with no results, and now is experiencing new overruns in cost and time after 'not hav[ing] the full picture of how complex this project would be.' The current estimate of the redesign is $12 million and years of further work on top of the money already spent."
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Submission + - 30 year old payroll system, $40 million fix (chicagotribune.com)

Submitted by jaroslav
jaroslav writes: The University of Wisconsin is attempting to update a payroll system they have had in place since 1975, but spent $28.4 million in a 2004 attempt with no results, and now is experiencing new overruns in cost and time after "not hav[ing] the full picture of how complex this project would be". The current estimate of the redesign is $12 million and years of further work on top of the money already spent.

Comment private companies suck sometimes (Score 2, Interesting) 37

by jaroslav (#28233427) Attached to: Court Case Against VeriSign, .Com Monopoly Revived
From the article, "CFIT themselves, despite their name, is about as opaque an organization as there is".

So, we have a company we know is evil-ish, a company we think might tend towards evil if we gave them control of .com, and ICANN -- for what they're worth. It seems to me that if we continue essentially the same system we have now that VeriSign (or whoever is ultimately given control) needs to be on a short leash from ICANN. Not that they are necessarily better or more transparent, but at least they can be more directly influenced by the government / public opinion.

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