[LINK] UK government to create 'super websites'

[Antony Barry]

On 11/01/2007, at 10:20 AM, Ivan Trundle wrote:

> But that's altogether different. And harder to avoid. But I would  
> assume that migration of data to the central server(s) would be  
> managed by individual agencies, and that places where duplicate  
> records were held could be streamlined somewhat.
>

My gut feeling is that duplication on different servers is good.

>
> I thoroughly dislike, as a consumer/taxpayer, having to assess  
> which is the best location to find information, and in any event,  
> there is simply too much of it about to make sense of it much of  
> the time (less is more).

That's why I like the centralised index then you don't need to worry  
if there ar 1, 2 100 or 1000 physical servers.

Tony

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