[LINK] web: One Public Service, 200 systems, hundreds of millions wasted

[David Lochrin]

On 2015-04-30 19:46 Bernard Robertson wrote:

> On 29-Apr-15 1:56 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> Here we go again:
>>
>>       http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/one-public-service-200-systems-hundreds-of-millions-wasted-20150428-1mv6mm.html
> 
> Be careful taking advice from someone selling a solution. They have a vested and conflicted interest.

Hear!  Hear!!

And as I keep on saying, there's an inverse relationship between size & complexity and vulnerability.  Several hundred independent, dispersed systems don't go down together short of a major calamity.

I wonder how the data will be managed?  Maybe in an offshore cloud under somebody else's control?  Whoops... the communication paths have been disabled...

Yes, I know it's all been said before.

David L.