ViC basically built their own. NSW also built their own, then trashed it and bought Opal. QLD also built their own (GoCard). It's all stunning waste in unnecessary redesign.
These were already well known technologies. Friend of mine was driving buses in Brisbane. He said when they first deployed GoCard, they couldn't get things like sensitivities right. He'd drive past a bus stop and it would charge everyone standing there. We did not need to learn all this again. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low SQL Down Under Pty Ltd Mobile: +61419201410 Office: 1300775775 ________________________________ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 10:53 am To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Fines Victoria crisis deepens Myki is another product bought from overseas I heard. From one of the Scandinavian countries I think. Managed by NTTData from memory, could be wrong, don’t quote me. On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 10:42, David Connors <da...@connors.com<mailto:da...@connors.com>> wrote: Myki in Vic should get a notable mention... ticketing system for trams and trains that was the same price as building sending a couple of Opportunity Rovers to Mars. David Connors da...@connors.com<mailto:da...@connors.com> | M +61 417 189 363 Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 19:50, Grant Maw <grant....@gmail.com<mailto:grant....@gmail.com>> wrote: It's not just Victoria. The QLD government IT projects 9ver recent years have also been rolled gold catastrophes On Wed, 23 Oct. 2019, 11:24 am Greg Keogh, <gfke...@gmail.com<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>> wrote: Interesting front page article in The Age newspaper today<https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/fines-victoria-system-collapses-leaving-massive-hole-in-state-budget-20191022-p5333d.html> about a Victorian government IT disaster. IT disasters are routine (I'm sure we've all caused a few!) but it's interesting that they actually name the software as VIEW from a company called Civica. The article is a bit vague about what's actually wrong, it just says "[it] doesn't work", "the system was absolute chaos" and systems are not "talking to" their computers. Does anyone have inside gossip about what really happened? There was another vast IT disaster a few years ago related to the education system I think, where dodgy contracts were being awarded to mates, and I think the loss ran into the hundreds of millions. That story vanished from the news and I never found out what happened. Greg K
