And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system

Oracle has won a deal to supply ERP software to East Sussex County Council, on England's south coast, in a delayed £25m project to replace the authority's ageing SAP R/3 system. In an appointment that was supposed to take place by December last year, the council said it had selected Big Red for software worth £3.8m over an …

[andy 103]

Budget breakdown

At a guess...

£10 million for project management

£10 million in expenses such as taking people out for lunch to discuss the project

£5 million for "misc costs"

About £10 to tell council staff the spreadsheets they all send around via email are being replaced by a system. A system which will not stop staff sending said data around by email with Excel attachments.

[MontyMole]

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

[dave 81]

Beat me to it. Word for word. Guess who's council tax is going to go up massively in the next few years.

[TVU]

"Guess who's council tax is going to go up massively in the next few years"

...especially when East Sussex County Council is on the receiving end of one of Larry's license compliance audits.

[PeterM42]

Surely....

...that should be out of the fire into the frying pan?

Get coated in oil.

THEN back to the fire.