How about this for a failed project. £10bn blowout on a doomed IT system
for the UK National Health Service
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-system-10bn.
UK government appear to have learned their lesson by using the cloud and
open source software
http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/02/02/gov-uk-truly-open-platform/.
Lot's of their web app stuff is now open
source and available on github for everybody to fork
https://github.com/alphagov. US/Canadian states/governments are
interested in adopting a similar model.
They seem to trust Amazon EC2 to deliver mission critical systems. Is
this a trend or a flash in the pan?
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