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You can do good enterprise software, but it isn't free. That's the issue. If you're prepared to pay for a solution that actually fits your business and you hav
by mhh__ 5y ago
You can do good enterprise software, but it isn't free. That's the issue.
If you're prepared to pay for a solution that actually fits your business and you have tight coupling of good software developers and intelligent people who will be using it you can get good results, but people either want something for nothing (won't pay for it) or are mentally incapable of constraining what they want. Some firms simply do not have the staff nor culture to do things well, unfortunately.
- jayelbe 5y agoThey spent £1bn on Horizon, this isn't a case of not spending enough money. You might be onto something re:business fit - the system was designed to process benefits payments and, when the Post Office lost this work, was repurposed into an all-functioning EPOS (which it wasn't originally designed for). I get the distinct impression that, from the offset, the Post Office might have been more concerned with saving face and justifying the amount spent on the system, and this lead to a culture where none of the system's flaws (or poor fit) could be properly acknowledged or addressed.