Comment Pictures (Score 1) 162
Any picture of this"data center" available on a website ?
Comment France.fr light difficulties (Score 1) 150
French newpaper "Le canard enchainé" reported lastly the real cost of France.fr web site was about € 4m, only € 1m according to french government. France.fr, whose lauching delay initially planned on july 14th was subject to controversy, is coming in a variety of 5 languages offers 3 000 pages, 12 000 links and 1 million indexed documents. It's mainly aiming at providing practical informations (tourism, employement, vie quotidienne, everydaylife, firms implantation, etc.) in France. I can hardly understand Birmingham € 48m website development and maintenance costs !
£32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website 150
An anonymous reader writes "Birmingham Wired have uncovered that Birmingham City Council spend on average £32,000 a day maintaining a council website that has cost the tax-payer over £48 million to date, while councils nationwide prepare to say goodbye to 26,000 jobs due to budget deficits. Capita, a London based outsourcing company, states on their website: 'To date we've invested £48.4m in a combination of staff training, network upgrades, server replacements, hardware and software — and we continue to drive efficiency through innovation.'"
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