Software Disaster

[Peter Hiscocks]

For those who are interested in software failures, the latest (September)
issue of IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article on the FBI Virtual Case
File, a software system that was scrapped after spending 170M$. The same
issue has a 'software hall of shame' that lists similar failures, some with
costs into the billions.

For the FBI, I can only hope the spooks are better at finding criminals than
they are at putting together a computer system.

Peter

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Peter D. Hiscocks                         	   
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