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NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project

alphadogg writes "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is demanding that systems integrator Science Applications International Corporation reimburse more than $600 million it was paid in connection with the troubled CityTime software project, a long-running effort to overhaul the city's payroll system. 'The City relied on the integrity of SAIC as one of the nation's leading technology application companies to execute the CityTime project within a reasonable amount of time and within budget given the system's size and complexity,' Bloomberg wrote in a letter Wednesday to SAIC CEO Walter Havenstein. CityTime was launched in 2003 at a budget of $63 million, but costs swelled dramatically as the project stumbled along for nearly a decade."

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  1. In Other News: by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Honorable Mayor Bloomberg is shocked, shocked, to discover fraud and waste going on here...

  2. Re:SAIC ever have any successful projects? by memyselfandeye · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nope. But they did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

    to make sure that thousand dollar escort treated the Senator just right.

  3. Sorry, didn't you read the EULA? by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The EULA specifically says that you can't ever, never sue us--for any reason. It also says that this software is not in any way obligated to ever function.

    Hey, you clicked through it.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  4. Re:SAIC ever have any successful projects? by MrEricSir · · Score: 3, Funny

    This year's America's Cup is sponsored by another company that makes shoddy, overpriced software -- Oracle.

    I guess there's a connection between shady businesses and rich assholes who race yachts. Who ever would have guessed?

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