On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:27:31 -0400, Freeman, Donald
<dofreeman_at_state.pa.us> wrote:
> You're welcome...I am a PSE also<g> although a fairly recent addition. =
> All of our major projects are outsourced and some of them are better =
> than others. We haven't had any noteworthy IT project failures in =
> Pennsylvania that I know of but if we did it would be hard to place all =
> the blame on the contractor. We set the requirements and administer the =
> contract. If it doesn't turn out well I'd be hard put to put all the =
> blame on the consultants. =20
I don't put all the blame on the suppliers. I just don't believe that
changing the ethos from public service to for profit automagically
improves outcomes. FWIW I don't believe that it works the other way
either.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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