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Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Dumps Water Data Project

Posted by samzenpus on from the that-wasn't-the-plan dept.

littlekorea writes "Australia's weather bureau has racked up bills of $38 million for a water data system, based on Red Hat Linux, MySQL and Java, that was originally scheduled to cost somewhere between $2 million and $5 million. The Bureau's supplier, an ASX-listed IT services provider SMS Management and Technology, did a good job of embedding itself in the bureau, with all changes having to be made by the original consultant that built it."

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  1. racked up bills of $38 million by Chrisq · · Score: 2, Funny

    racked up bills of $38 million for a water data system

    for that amount of money they could have secured a water supply for a small town, or provided flood defenses along half a mile of a river.

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