Pretty much par for the course on Government IT projects by the sounds of it. What really makes me sad is how much good this money could have done for our own domestic IT industry, instead it's all sent abroad with nothing to show for it.
The way I see it the Government have (had) about £250m to spend on this system over, lets say, 5 years. That gives you £50m / year to spend or to put it another way the entire turn over of a decent sized software development company. I'm not saying that the Government should be into state owned businesses long term but there was no reason they couldn't have started this enterprise up and once it's completed e-Borders spin it off as a going concern. Even if the company failed to deliver a working system at least the money would have stayed in the UK.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
