+1 It was reported that Cenitex would have to look through its incident system to (approximately 600,000 tickets) to see which ones were complaints. Presumably Cenitex isn't interested in writing some kind of automated way of doing this, but was going to have to hire people to manually look through these one by one.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig van Nieuwkerk Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012 3:59 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Almost Friday: Government's "IT Centre for Excellence" would take 24 years and $1million to restore emails. Why do I think that this estimate wasn't done by the IT department but by someone higher up the food chain who didn't want it to be done! On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Les Hughes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: /"The Age/ has lost a freedom of information battle against a state government body that claimed it would take 24 years and cost nearly $1 million to process two requests." "Ms Lambrick said she found it ''surprising'' that the government's centre for information and technology excellence ''would not have the sufficient equipment for this request to be processed''. CenITex's estimate of one hour to restore each encrypted email was, she said, ''staggering''." http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/age-defeated-over-1m-foi-request-20120919-2672p.html ------------------------------------------------------ "centre for information and technology excellence" can't restore emails? Are you kidding me? It's pretty easy to understand the arguments from the "taxes are theft" crowd when you see things like this. -- Les Hughes [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
