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When IT and Bad Government Meet, Everyone Loses

Posted by chrisd on from the 9-track-really-isn't-the-answer dept.

Cron-os writes "The city of Wilkes Barre, Pa is furiously trying to enter some 25,000 tax records into their new PC network. Their aging AS/400 crashed sometime around April 15, and the city did not renew a maintenance contract with IBM because it cost more than the PC network. You can read the associated articles here, here, and here. I'm so glad I live across the river in a SANE city." I wonder if these bozos run their schools and roads departments with the same level of professionalism.

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  1. Humans by jhines · · Score: 1, Redundant

    To error is human, to really foul up, you need a computer.