Comments on: Is the Victorian Government running without data backups? http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/16/is-the-victorian-government-running-without-data-backups/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:11:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cybic http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/16/is-the-victorian-government-running-without-data-backups/#comment-2134 Cybic Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2134 "The whole point of an SOE is that it exactly matches the configuration needed by end users", WTF. Who are you kidding? SOE is a standard package of apps that meet an organisations needs not an individual necessarily. It is the "lowest common denominator" for IT to reduce costs/time to admin.<br /><br />Not all government departments have the same SOE because they have different functions and therefore needs within their sections. “The whole point of an SOE is that it exactly matches the configuration needed by end users”, WTF. Who are you kidding? SOE is a standard package of apps that meet an organisations needs not an individual necessarily. It is the “lowest common denominator” for IT to reduce costs/time to admin.

Not all government departments have the same SOE because they have different functions and therefore needs within their sections.

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/16/is-the-victorian-government-running-without-data-backups/#comment-2135 Stilgherrian Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2135 @Cybic, my point is that if the SOE is the same across six departments, and doesn't contain a department's basic workflow applications and middleware, then there's not going to be much cost-saving -- when compared with having a SOE per-department or per-major-section (which may in turn be based on a common core platform).<br /><br />Our tipster also said that any work by CenITex outside the SOE was separately billable -- which is fine, provided that it's all be budgeted for. Their implication was that it hadn't been. We shall see when CenITex's reply arrives. @Cybic, my point is that if the SOE is the same across six departments, and doesn’t contain a department’s basic workflow applications and middleware, then there’s not going to be much cost-saving — when compared with having a SOE per-department or per-major-section (which may in turn be based on a common core platform).

Our tipster also said that any work by CenITex outside the SOE was separately billable — which is fine, provided that it’s all be budgeted for. Their implication was that it hadn’t been. We shall see when CenITex’s reply arrives.

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