Reply to post: Re: AU$34m? Pfft!

Re: AU$34m? Pfft!

Remember when Queensland Health contracted IBM to provide a payroll system for $6m and ended up paying $1.2bn for a smoking pile of slag?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/13/queensland_payroll_ibm_sap_inquiry/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/11/queensland_health_payroll_inquiry/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/17/vendors_snap_at_each_other_in_queensland_health_inquiry/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/ibm_committed_ethical_transgressions_to_win_botched_project/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/06/australian_state_to_sue_ibm_over_aud1bn_project_blowout/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/01/supersueball_heading_ibms_way_in_australia/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/08/ibm_vs_queensland_health_payroll_decision/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/court_drops_ibms_costs_on_queensland_government/

We (well... so far Queensland) can fuck things up just as well as anyone else!