In Denmark we will soon have the next 4th yearly election for our parliament “folketinget”. However, it seems to be threatened by the workers union PROSA, whose members are maintaining some of the most important IT systems in Denmark (including the police systems and the tax authorities). All these systems are maintained by CSC, who made a lockout of some of the works unions members, which resulted in a strike for even more members.
If you ask me CSC reminds me of overpriced public IT projects – it always ends this way. Furthermore, its really common that every time they finish a project, that they charged many tax moneys for, it seems to be lacking functionality. However, the public IT administration seems to be married with them and continues to pick them for every project.
I think this is a great example of the public IT administration failing once again – never pick the same supplier for all the public service systems – you risk loosing them all simultaneously.
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