I knew the second it was announced Oracle was going to be the main software developer for the Cover Oregon exchange, it would end in tears.
I work for a fortune 500 company that have struggled with Oracle POS software for the better part of a decade and we are finally getting rid of it/them.
The chutzpah of these assgaskets trying to countersue because their colossal fuck-up in building the CO software to run the exchange is amazing.
I concur on all points.
The web front-end was great. It was their back-end that never worked, and was a total mess.
That’s it exactly - they are making those claims. I have a relative who works for Accenture and he says it is one of the biggest Fk-ups they have ever seen.
In a normal Development Clusterfrick what happened at Cover Oregon would be called “scope creep” but in this case there appears to have been little to no “scope”
The Cover Oregon project got off to a rousing start when the project was presented as being all things to all people upon launch.
Then the old axiom you can have it inexpensive, high quality or delivered quickly…pick any two hovered over the entire project but no one bothered to pick two, they wanted all three.
I think I dated that girl for a while.
The web front end that consumers see needs a back end system built on a database. In this case the Sieble Customer Relationship Management was the product.
Oracle bought Sieble years ago just as it also purchased most other database application platforms that once were it’s competitors.