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"The U.S. government can save more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years by consolidating its IT infrastructure, reducing its energy use and moving to more Web-based citizen services, a group of tech CEOs said in a report released Wednesday.
Well you can only exaggerate so much, and $1 trillion is a lot of money, so I would expect that the real number is billions that could be saved.
Slashdot IT Story | Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion
It goes to show you that big solutions aren't always sexy. IT infrastructure is not an especially exciting topic, but investments in it have the potential to really help our nation. Granted, this report was not exactly produced by disinterested bystanders, so I'm not sure how valid their $1 trillion figure is...but in any case, better IT management can save the government a lot.
I've seen some of the IT infrastructure at a couple federal government agencies. It's truly shocking how outdated they are. I'm working with an agency right now to streamline a very important process, and they still use paper forms for everything. Unbelievable.
Yes, government isn't exactly known as the bation of technological progress.
You'll probably find a lot of resistance as this will likely reduce the employed bureaucracy.
Neither is the private sector. IT is seemingly incredibly difficult to pull off well for both sectors.
You'll probably find a lot of resistance as this will likely reduce the employed bureaucracy.
I've seen some of the IT infrastructure at a couple federal government agencies. It's truly shocking how outdated they are. I'm working with an agency right now to streamline a very important process, and they still use paper forms for everything. Unbelievable.
No it won't. They'll just find other places in the bureaucracy to maintain their employment.
It'll probably cost $1.5 trillion to execute all these changes and up-grades.
Yea, easier to stay in the dark ages or even move back to the dark ages, than go forward and improve things.. nod. Bring back slavery!
How do we know that there will be any real improvements? We don't. Do we? So, you want the American tax payer to spend untold millions to line the pockets of these CEO's, to make upgrades that may not even work?
How do we know that there will be any real improvements? We don't. Do we? So, you want the American tax payer to spend untold millions to line the pockets of these CEO's, to make upgrades that may not even work?
You do it all the time with the military, so what difference does it make? Unlike the military, if this is done right (not that I expect it to be done right), then it could save you a bucket load of money that you then could waste on your military.
Point is saying that the idea is stupid because of your idiotic political system, does not mean the idea is actually stupid. Just means your political system is corrupt up to its eyeballs.
You got that right
we are moving to an Oracle ERP system and it is not going very smoothly
Oh don't be such a luddite.
No it won't. They'll just find other places in the bureaucracy to maintain their employment.
You could save the taxpayers a trillion dollars!
by installing our products all over the country, paying us millions to do so.
That's true too.
But I don't think we could argue that it wouldn't save some money.
Spending millions to save billions, isn't a bad idea.
Of course. However, taking the statements of a salesman at face value is not the best of plans.
How do we know that there will be any real improvements? We don't. Do we? So, you want the American tax payer to spend untold millions to line the pockets of these CEO's, to make upgrades that may not even work?
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