$41 million is chump change compared to the billions the state has spent buying its way out of a self-inflicted energy crisis, but it indicates that mismanagement goes all the way to the Governor's office.
How many people in California have heard about this latest example of Davis's mismanagement and/or corruption?
Though in an attempt to avoid rushing to judgement, this isn't the first time that California has thrown multi-millions down the IT hole. There doesn't seem to be anybody in California government, at any level or in any decade, that has a clue about how to manage a large IT proposal process.
Of course, possibly they know just the right way to manage for a little personal profit.