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Oracle Investigation Grows

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-late-for-rug-sweeping dept.

VValdo writes "Department heads resigning, millions of dollars wasted, documents shredded, the government investigating. No, it's not Enron-- as previously reported, the $95 million contract with Oracle is blowing into a full-fledged scandal in California, according to today's LA Times, The article begins, "California Highway Patrol officers moved in Thursday to halt shredding at the state's information technology department, and Gov. Gray Davis suspended the agency's chief amid a widening investigation of the state's multimillion-dollar computer contract with Oracle Corp.""

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  1. Yeah by multipartmixed · · Score: 2, Troll

    Governor Reagan would never have let that happen. Hell, if the state was hurting for money, he'd probably just sell some guns and stuff to the Nicaraguans again.

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  2. Re:The Sad Thing Is... by Baldrson · · Score: 2, Troll
    They will not say, "let's switch our departments to MySQL instead."

    Nor would I. Postgres is up to the task but MySQL isn't quite there yet.

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