[LINK] Cost Breakdown was: Alston's $4m website

[Tim O'Leary]

At 09:56 PM Thursday 4/3/03 +1000, James Morris wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Viveka wrote:
> > >suffered a massive blowout from its initial budget of $600,000.
>  still don't even understand how thay arrived at an initial budget of
>$600k.
>Is there any way that us plebs can obtain a breakdown of the costs?

The Australian article has a sort of breakdown:

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6227857%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Nice to see Macromedia seeing an opening and sticking the boots in  - 
comparing to NZ as well - and suggesting the right cost was about 
$NZ120,000 --- ouch!

I see its made The Register - if it gets up the list on /. the Dept will 
get a test for free to see if those *hosting * services are robust, 
industrial strength etc.

===begin Australian extract ==

........... Fujitsu was paid more than $2.08 million for the web development.
........... $661,426 on hardware
......... $927,705 on software.
............A further $956,046 was spent on hosting and support services.
......... Vignette made up $800,000 or more of the total software costs.

All costs are GST exclusive.

===end Australian extract ==

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