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Title: Billion-Dollar Flop
Post by: daveismissing on December 09 2012, 09:39:31 AM
Last month, it canceled a six-year-old modernization effort that had eaten up more than $1 billion. When the Air Force realized that it would cost another $1 billion just to achieve one-quarter of the capabilities originally planned -- and that even then the system would not be fully ready before 2020 -- it decided to decamp
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http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/technology/billion-dollar-flop-air-force-stumbles-on-software-plan-665500/
Title: Re: Billion-Dollar Flop
Post by: Steve Wood on December 09 2012, 10:02:21 AM
and, I was going to make a smart azzed remark that it must have been oracle...
Title: Re: Billion-Dollar Flop
Post by: motorhead on December 09 2012, 10:23:07 AM
Happens more often than you would believe...
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