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£32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-doing-it-wrong dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Birmingham Wired have uncovered that Birmingham City Council spend on average £32,000 a day maintaining a council website that has cost the tax-payer over £48 million to date, while councils nationwide prepare to say goodbye to 26,000 jobs due to budget deficits. Capita, a London based outsourcing company, states on their website: 'To date we've invested £48.4m in a combination of staff training, network upgrades, server replacements, hardware and software — and we continue to drive efficiency through innovation.'"

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  1. Shhhhh by Lije+Baley · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's just this kind of nonsense that keeps us computer folk employed.

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    1. Re:Shhhhh by hldn · · Score: 3, Funny

      the source code is actually a program written in whitespace

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  2. I just took a look at their site by Urd.Yggdrasil · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just took a look at their site, which I thought must be amazing for that kind of money, and I found this: What exactly Birmingham City Council up to!? Perhaps the money is going someplace a bit more nefarious.

    1. Re:I just took a look at their site by lenroc · · Score: 2, Funny

      I just took a look at their site, which I thought must be amazing for that kind of money, and I found this: <meta name="ICBM" content="52.48002, -1.902805"> What exactly Birmingham City Council up to!? Perhaps the money is going someplace a bit more nefarious.

      According to Google, that's Birmingham Town Hall!

      Perhaps that's part of Capita's plan to ensure payment in full...

  3. Re:At least they didn't use frontpage by CdBee · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're dealing with Brummies here, lets not pretend that spelling is the most important problem they face.... Vuuurrrrrrrrry noyce....

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  4. Re:48 million pounds / population 1 million by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Probably. I don't think a subscription weighs that much.

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  5. Re:Runs on Oracle stuff by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...plus presumably £650 for Oracle Enterprise Database Server...

    I would like to know where you are buying your Oracle licenses 'cause I'm paying something like £20000 anually for my Enterprise license (for a quad core, single socket server)

    650 BGP must be to run on a 386.

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  6. Re:efficiently... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably because Yiddish is the best human language for expressing outrage. It even passes German in the ability to combine insulting someone with spitting on them.

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  7. Re:bad story - I must agree by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crapita never do anything without ripping off good people

    That's not fair. They do not practice any such discrimination, they're happy to rip off anyone - good or bad.

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  8. First word... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    First word in the "Service Menu" is Waste.