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Australian State Bans IBM From All Contracts After Payroll Bungle

Posted by samzenpus on from the and-you're-done dept.

renai42 writes "If you don't follow Australian technology news, you're probably not aware that over the past few years, the State of Queensland massively bungled a payroll systems upgrade in its Department of Health. The issues resulted in thousands of hospital staff being underpaid or not paid at all, and has ballooned in cost from under $10 million in budget to a projected total cost of $1.2 billion. Queensland has now banned the project's prime contractor, IBM, comprehensively from signing any new contracts with any government department, until it addresses what the state says are IBM's project governance issues."

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  1. Language Barrier by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously, you Aussie blokes need to learn Hindi if you want to partner effectively with IBM.

    1. Re:Language Barrier by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 3, Funny

      The Aussies would have learn English first.

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      "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
    2. Re:Language Barrier by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      ^ to

      pot / kettle

    3. Re:Language Barrier by Entropius · · Score: 4, Funny

      :P

      I don't see why we don't just outsource all our snooping to the Chinese. The outcome will be the same but it'll be cheaper for the American taxpayer, and the Chinglish translations will be hilarious.