If civil servants adopt the age-old pay-for-value strategy, the “zero-failure ERP implementation strategy”, citizens will only lose very little:
1. Let the city's own IT staff implement the project.
2. They hire only one consultant to train these IT people in all the necessary skills to implement their project with a decent ERP development and execution framework powered by PostgreSQL to implement their projects. City consulates will try to limit overall training days to 5 days unless their IT staff does not have PostgreSQL, basic accounting, and large database design skills.
3. If the majority of IT staff or end users are not satisfied with the above ERP framework during implementation, City Consul will not purchase the ERP framework.
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 1:49 AM Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> wrote:
>
> Heh Heh Heh. This is pretty funny:
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/birmingham_city_council_oracle/
>
> "Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, has
> declared itself in financial distress after troubled Oracle project
> costs ballooned from £20 million to around £100 million ($125.5
> million)."
>
> Wonder if they'll make the smart choice next time around, and choose PG
> + a decent vendor instead? :)
In fairness, that project is about Oracle Fusion, not the database. So
PG doesn't have a competing product. There are opensource ERP products
out there, but I'm not sure they're advanced enough to handle
something like that...
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