the 60 milion euro site
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- tank02
this site costed over 60 million euros
article here(in dutch)
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/nie…
- CALLES0
and it doesnt even have rollover links!
- Witt0
i bet the logo was 40 million. which is a fair price.
- material-10
jacob nielsen cheered
- tasty0
117million us dollar...
Well it is a government site, that is a great way to stick it to the man.
Oh tax me will you? Then you shall pay a buttload of dough.
- moldero0
belgium.be
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- digilee0
So i clicked English .. "we don't do english, choose dutch or french" ... i choose french ... and it comes up in english?
- ants0
So i clicked English .. "we don't do english, choose dutch or french" ... i choose french ... and it comes up in english?
digilee
(Apr 10 07, 17:19)And then there's French on subpages of English menus... work that one out.
- RoyBoy0
is that $$$ amount serious??
OMFG!!
- -kappa-0
It must be a €59.999.990 backend and €1.00 front end...
- pascii0
holy..! i can't find no words :(
- tank020
can a coder of programmer explain how much this would cost?
i want to make a case of this,this is ridiclolous, its crap design,
the functionality sucks and it doesn't work...
- -kappa-0
it's a hard to tell the extent of the site, it might be massive...
But definitely not 60million massive...that's a joke
- pascii0
if that's true, i stop working and live as a hippie
- Timson0
i bet it'll cost another 2 million to have some css on the links.
who did the site, was it a belgian firm?
- rafalski0
Doesn't it say in the article it was Accenture?
- emecks0
fucken HOW much?
- Baskerville0
I thought I'd be helpful and provide an english translation (using babelfish):
"Belgium.be cost eight million more than estimated"
The contract with Accenture for the development and management of the portal Belgium.be over the past five years has cost 63.755 million euros, eight millions euros more than estimated initially.
That puts Member of Parliament Roel Deseyn (CD&V) on the basis of figures of minister of informatisering peter Vanvelthoven (sp.a). He fears that the costs for the new four-year contract will end up at 32 millions euros.
At the start of the contract in 2002, the costs were estimated at 55.651 million euro, "then already a phenomenal amount", said Deseyn. He wonders himself if "a recurrence of the same fiasco" is happening already. He makes up figures of Vanvelthoven that for the second contract 19.487 million euro is likely, but that there booked stands still tasks for 13.170 million euro which not in is totally counted in.
The incremental costs of the first contract do not translate themselves according to the opposition member in a real appreciation. The criticism concerning the quality and recentheid of the information on the federal portal was never of air. For the illustration, end 2006 a secret report of the state security was even published on Belgium.be, sounds (belga/dm)
- Timson0
Doesn't it say in the article it was Accenture?
rafalski
(Apr 11 07, 00:51)sorry, my dutch ain't that good ;-)
so it is accenture and it looks like an oversea firm. i don't want to sound chauvinistic here but i can name ten belgian firms who could have done the job.
and btw it also was accenture who f*cked up the software for 'copernicus'. a million(s) dollar project for automating our justice department. was in the news recently.
- tank020
belgian government at its best..
it makes me sad.
a team of belgian companies
could have done it much better...
