Why the Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system
Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon despite its broken state. Hopefully this should be a wake up call to government about how it goes about large software projects.
In my opinion anything written for government should come with a full license for the source code (preferably open source) so they have the ability to change suppliers if there are any issues.
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I know people who were working on the replacement system with accenture but they ran out of money for it halfway through and it got abandoned. That was like 2 years ago.