IT Conversations had a good talk on large scale databases and why they fail. ($170 million FBI database) http://cdn.itconversations.com/ITC.IEEE-FBISoftware-20

IT Conversations had a good talk on large scale databases and why they fail. ($170 million FBI database) http://cdn.itconversations.com/ITC.IEEE-FBISoftware-2006.06.01.mp3 http://cdn.itconversations.com/ITC.IEEE-FBISoftware-2006.06.... TL;DL No one actually sat down and specifically told the contractors what was needed because they didn't bother to even work it out for themselves. So the contractors could get away with what they wanted.