[LINK] Tax Office spends $5.2m to put e-tax on Mac

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Wed May 22 12:37:53 AEST 2013


Andy Farkas posted this same news in January:

http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2013-January/099100.html

> Correction: an *additional* $5m after the $32m already given!
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/au/ato-pays-dws-au5m-to-get-e-tax-mac-ready-7000009609/
> 
> Wish I could be a software engineer for DWS! The pay must be amazing!
> 
> -andyf


So 4 months later and $37 Million and it's still not ready.  


On 2013/May/21, at 10:17 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:

> http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/tax-office-spends-52m-to-put-etax-on-mac-20130521-2jxwy.html
> 
>> Tax Office spends $5.2m to put e-tax on Mac
> 
>> "I doubt you'd find anyone anywhere that would call that a bargain," Mr Ivanovich said.
>> 
>> Peter Wells, editor of Apple fan website MacTalk.com.au, said:
>> 
>> "For software this complex and this important I think six figures is a totally fair amount, but I have no idea if seven figures is a fair amount," Mr Wells said.
>> 
>> "But to be honest, I think that they probably should have spent that money on a web-based system, because all they've got now is a Mac application when there are more iPhone and other iOS devices [like iPads] ... in this country right now than there are Macs on desks."
>> 
>> Regardless, Mr Wells said it was great that a Mac version was coming – "but it's almost like [the Tax Office has] finally caught up to where they should have been in 2007".
>> 
>> "They've got a hell of a long way to get to 2013."
> 
> No mention of Linux in the whole article.  Still, I used to use a Mac with wine.
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