[Sigia-l] Dedicated to those...

[prady]

On 11/17/06, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:

> (I'm now looking at a $65 million SAP implementation at one of the world's
> largest companies. After 3.5 years, it's nowhere near completion. In all
> likelihood it will never be deployed. $65 million! There are many stages of
> the project already deemed a "success" by the vendor and the contractor(s)
> based on "metrics" not unlike Joel's example in spirit. This is as shameful
> as it's lucrative for those involved.)

Let me guess, whom you work for -- "Wall Street Financial giant", right? :-)

There's some similarity between "oil" and "financial" firms -- access
to cheap money. You can add just a nickle to the "technology fee" and
can recover all $65 Millions. Try denying it :-)