£32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website 150
An anonymous reader writes "Birmingham Wired have uncovered that Birmingham City Council spend on average £32,000 a day maintaining a council website that has cost the tax-payer over £48 million to date, while councils nationwide prepare to say goodbye to 26,000 jobs due to budget deficits. Capita, a London based outsourcing company, states on their website: 'To date we've invested £48.4m in a combination of staff training, network upgrades, server replacements, hardware and software — and we continue to drive efficiency through innovation.'"
Shhhhh (Score:5, Funny)
It's just this kind of nonsense that keeps us computer folk employed.
I just took a look at their site (Score:5, Funny)
Re:At least they didn't use frontpage (Score:5, Funny)
Re:48 million pounds / population 1 million (Score:4, Funny)
Probably. I don't think a subscription weighs that much.
Re:Runs on Oracle stuff (Score:3, Funny)
I would like to know where you are buying your Oracle licenses 'cause I'm paying something like £20000 anually for my Enterprise license (for a quad core, single socket server)
650 BGP must be to run on a 386.
Re:efficiently... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:bad story - I must agree (Score:5, Funny)
Crapita never do anything without ripping off good people
That's not fair. They do not practice any such discrimination, they're happy to rip off anyone - good or bad.
Re:Shhhhh (Score:4, Funny)
the source code is actually a program written in whitespace [wikipedia.org]
First word... (Score:1, Funny)
First word in the "Service Menu" is Waste.
Re:I just took a look at their site (Score:2, Funny)
I just took a look at their site, which I thought must be amazing for that kind of money, and I found this: <meta name="ICBM" content="52.48002, -1.902805"> What exactly Birmingham City Council up to!? Perhaps the money is going someplace a bit more nefarious.
According to Google, that's Birmingham Town Hall! [google.com]
Perhaps that's part of Capita's plan to ensure payment in full...