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

[James Morris]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Tim O'Leary wrote:

> ===begin Australian extract ==
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> ........... 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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Truly amazing.  How much of our money could they have kept onshore, or not
spent uselessly, by using open source products?  I know that some open
source CMS are claimed to be superior to Vignette, and I'd bet solidly
that the hardware requirements could be vastly reduced.  And given that 
they have paid for a CMS, how did they manage to spend $2M spent on 'web 
development' ?  How much would they expect to pay for ongoing maintenance?

Here's an interesting back of the envelope calculation.  If an average
worker pays $10k/yr in tax, and works for 40 years, it takes the full
working lifetime of 10 of these people to pay for the initial web site.

Although, I guess it all pales in comparison to the $12B/yr handed out in
corporate welfare.


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris at intercode.com.au>