VITA board's secrecy assailed
Some question decision not to publicly release privatization proposals
Virginia taxpayers and government officials are beginning to express displeasure with the state Information Technology Investment Board's decision not to release publicly the proposals for privatizing the state's IT system.
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Monday, August 22, 2005
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Here's the rub:
The folks who run VITA are well known for choosing buddies over competant vendors. One example is how the DIT management became the VITA Transition management which became the VITA management. Another example is how the VITA designers snuck a sole-source procurement in to get the Secretary of Technology's buddies at BearingPoint to provide logistics to prove VITA was a good idea.
Secret RFP meetings? Not a good thing. Talked to anyone in those meetings? I have, and the secret stories are not pretty.
I'm curious as to how they define capacity in both servers and desktops. Two things: One, we can't be 10 years behind the current technology and have servers that are this underutilized. It's not possible, you can't have it both ways. Either we're behind or we have too much. Second, how do they define "desktop computing capacity" and it's optimum utilization level? There is no industry standard for measuring desktop utilization. Some thoughts on this: Unless a computer is shared between 3 shifts, it will spend 2/3's of it's life unutilized, similar to how a person spends roughly 1/3 of their life sleeping. Unless IBM or Northrup is developing some sort of project that utilizes unused clock cycles (think SETI at home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) there is no way to reclaim that underutilized processing power. Unless they are going to switch us to dumb terminals... It IS IBM after all.
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