WISCONSIN CIO GETS SLAMMED ON ORACLE E-MAIL DEBACLE
By Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer
03.08.2006 | SearchCIO.com
MADISON, Wis. -- After spending $2.1 million on Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS) software to integrate the state's 44,000 e-mail boxes, Wisconsin CIO Matt Miszewski told state workers Feb. 24 he was scrapping the project.
The goal was to consolidate the state's 222 servers to 19. But a three-month trial run of the OCS system on 1,200 mailboxes in Wisconsin Governor's Jim Doyle's administration unveiled serious problems, including e-mails that vanished from "sent" folders, meeting invitations that never showed up in Outlook calendars, and distribution lists that failed to distribute.
The state was going back to Microsoft.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Wisconsin CIO gets slammed on Oracle e-mail debacle
Iran accross and interesting story today about how the state of Wisconsion is scrapping an oracle collaboration project which was supposed to spend an enormous amount of funds on the projec tot date. It would seem the project jsut will not scale to accomendate their users. Below is an excerpt from the story and you can read the full article on SearchCIO.com
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