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California to Cancel Oracle Deal
ShaunC writes "Back in mid-April, the state of California bought $95M worth of Oracle software, which turned out to include more licenses than the state has employees, at a taxpayer cost of $41M more than necessary. Now, CNet is reporting that the contract is being cancelled. Oracle apparently made a $25K donation to governor Gray Davis' campaign fund after the sale was made, several state officials have been suspended, and a criminal investigation into the deal is already underway."
A few observations:
1) fortran77 is a shitty language.
2) slashdot also sucks.
It depends...
If you're a yooge company about to go bankrupt, you can donate all you want to a republican presidential candidate.
If you're a fairly large software company that's still solvent, you can't donate any money at all to democrats. Or if you do, you're suddenly under investigation.
I'll Trade you $25,000 for $95,000,000!! What a DEAL!!!
"The best laid plans of mice and men gang oft agley..." - ROBERT BURNS
Not because they wouldn't have been ripped off-- in fact, MS would probably have igven them a bigger ass-reaming than Oracle, Enron, the San Andreas fault, and Richard Ramirez combined.
No, it wouldn't have happened with an MS product because Bill would not let them out of the contract no matter what. He didn't get that rich by writing a lot of checks, you know.