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   Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 09:51:43 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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   In other news, the 4 'Big Consulting' firms will *always* find - after heaps of expensive 'investigation' - that 'Big Tech' solutions are the way to go... because they both feed off each other. They pass contracts back and forth, to the taxpayer's detriment. Every. Single. Time. Get both out of gov't and we'll have better systems and save $billions each year.

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 09:51:47 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

     "Public agencies were increasingly being encouraged, even ordered, to buy standardised, non-customised IT systems to save money."

     https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516853/waka-kotahi-pays-pwc-to-meld-together-technologies-then-again-to-pull-them-apart

     They don't mean *open* standards (see https://openstandards.nz). They mean proprietary *non*standards & gov't procurement gets screwed by this. Every. Single. Time. 'Commercial-off-the-shelf' is the siren's song these vendors use to bamboozle gov't into spending way more than budgeted. Every. Time. This stuff isn't hard people.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.