Lucianne
Posted on 10/24/2013 10:05:34 AM PDT by xzins
Edited on 10/24/2013 10:06:38 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
But under questioning Thursday, Campbell said her company, CGI
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I’m not a developer by any means, but I do a lot of administrative scripting. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to re-work somebody else’s scripts that tested fine using a trivial test set and spun up and froze when confronted with actual production data.
some one of the reps ,,at the end of the House Hearing this morning asked why no on had Apologized......for this utter fiasco.
no one had a reasonable answer.
one of the “lets not politicize this” chumps had to chime in that no one who “shutdown”....the government had yet apologized for being so mean to obama....and obamacare..
the facts are on the table and America isnt THAT stupid....
The republicans didnt write the stinking thing and that wont be overlooked when the chit really hits the fan.
Everybody test markets new products.
You’d think test marketing new software would involve trying to overload it with customers.
And you think you’d discover at that point that it wouldn’t take even ONE customer.
right!
or say they needed 5 years of development and 2 years of testing.
Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford must be dying of envy.
It's almost like the thought it would work in production because the computers wouldn't dare dissappoint The One.
Lucianne
But this CGI, for a $22k campaign donation, got a $290 million no-bid contract.
Not a bad ROI.
I need some investment tips like that.
I've seen firms advertise on the web that they'll do advanced software from scratch for your business with applications for customers, inventory, you name it, and be talking in the neighborhood of 300 grand.
The scandal is that's the way government works. This company had someone stuff their pockets with about 289 million dollars profit at a cost of 290 million dollars.
That is fraud.
And it's the reason government costs so much. It's not a new idea. It's as old as county commissioners having Uncle Zeke's Blacktop Company pave roads at a double or triple the cost bid because of "quality". Everybody shares in splitting up the overpayment.
This is like Solyndra, huge payouts for naught
was this even a contract that got bidded on?
I’ve read that it was a no-bid contract, but the only reason the military could ever do a no-bid was if there was only a sole provider.
I’m betting there are hundreds of software firms in the country.
I have seen Priceline and Travelocity, why couldn’t they just do something like that? Find the company/policy you want and then click through to secure servers to sign up?
Wouldn’t that have been so much simpler?
There is nothing more complicated in what they wanted to do than Priceline and Travelocity. They could have bought their software and adapted it. And I bet for a whole lot less money....about 280 million less.
And my personal info is secure on those sites.
Yep.
Like has been said, this was supposed to fail. All that money went to slush funds probably.
This is such an obvious huge failure that embarrasses the democrat brand that you've got to wonder if the Obama cronies aren't really this stupid. It's hard to believe they're that stupid, but it is a possibility.
If they intentionally wanted it to fail, then you've got to wonder why.
So they can push for single payer, it’s not exactly a secret that they want it
Single payer will never get past the House of Representatives. And it shouldn’t get past a Senate in which we have 46 Senators supposedly opposed to it.
The rats would have to win 60 seats in the Senate and take over the House in 2014 to turn this into single payer.
Wait until the GOPe passes amnesty and conservatives stay home in 2014.
For about 10 years I was an Online gaming beta tester (Tested everything from Everquest to Warcraft.)
One of the main tests I was part of in every game was stress testing the servers including the login server.
There is noway this bunch of clowns actually did a valid stress test and gave this turd the go ahead to go live.
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