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An ambitious project to create a single national water database is going to need a complete reboot, with the Australian National Audit Office saying complexity, non-standard approaches and supplier capture caused a multi-million-dollar blowout in the system. The Bureau of Meteorology was given the task of creating the database …

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  1. david 12 Silver badge

    based on both open source and off-the-shelf commercial components

    So, exactly the same as the original then? A slight upgrade of the original?

    No meaningful imformation provided. Not even a reference to the press release.

  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Holy crap, that's bad even by usual standards.

    This is what happens when you have non-tech senior management who fall for the sales pitch from out-source suppliers.

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