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Stanford Learns a Software Lesson

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the school-of-hard-knocks dept.

Nick Irelan writes "In 1994 Stanford set aside $60 million to aquire the latest financial and management software from PeopleSoft and Oracle. However, the upgrade that was planned years ago is still not complete. Stanford has even begun outsourcing! 'Those who can't do teach :)'."

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  1. Re:or not by Seth+Finklestein · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm a lawyer by trade, but it was amazingly easy to set up an open-source financial back-end for a major services company. I just used proven technologies like SQL-Ledger and GNUcash, and followed the HOWTOs I found on-line.

    I'll charge you only $20,000 to fix your system, Stanford. I know how much you like to pay for crap.

    --
    I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.