Yup, and now the Brits seem to be flirting with the same asshole, Farange, who inflicted this on them in the first place.
That's "Farage". A Farange is a tumerous growth that requires serious antibiotics to deal with... ah, hang on, you're right, it is Farange. As you were.
Fortunately there is an easy fix. Education.
If user education was going to work, it would have worked by now.
That's a quote from an A/V conference about 20 years ago. Even then it was obvious that it wasn't working.
And why Oracle, since when are they in the construction rather than extortion business?
"Nice city you're planning to build here. Be a shame if a software licensing issue were to hold up breaking ground".
In this case the Saudis started with that downer; picked a particularly grim environment, likely to get at least a couple of degrees grimmer in the comparatively near future, and treated aggressive deviations from practicality as a virtue. There's probably something they could have done to doom the plan harder; but I'm not sure offhand what it would have been.
Get Oracle in as the prime contractor, and KPMG as the auditors.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
