Comments on: The Utegate edition of tips & rumours http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/tips-and-rumours-41/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bakerboy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/tips-and-rumours-41/#comment-29518 bakerboy Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:31:32 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/tips-and-rumours-41/#comment-29518 Former Public Servant must be very former. Email services such as hotmail, yahoo and gmail cannot be used on government servers. The reason for this is that they are full of viruses which could infect government systems. Most large private companies do the same. Former Public Servant must be very former. Email services such as hotmail, yahoo and gmail cannot be used on government servers. The reason for this is that they are full of viruses which could infect government systems. Most large private companies do the same.

]]> By: meski http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/tips-and-rumours-41/#comment-29498 meski Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:48:09 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/tips-and-rumours-41/#comment-29498 I'm not surprised at the cost either. It looks surprisingly good on a mobile browser, too, which tends to get overlooked. I’m not surprised at the cost either. It looks surprisingly good on a mobile browser, too, which tends to get overlooked.

]]> By: Phillipa Smyth http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/tips-and-rumours-41/#comment-29483 Phillipa Smyth Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:53:06 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/tips-and-rumours-41/#comment-29483 RE: Cityrail Website costs mentioned in Tips & Rumours, 24th June 2009. I logged on to the Cityrail website having read about how shocking that MILLIONS were spent on it and am completely unsurprised at the cost. It might only cost a few thousand bucks to develop a website on your home PC, but this thing needs to be accessible by thousands of viewers at once without falling over. More significantly, it receives real-time updates on the current transport status; real-time event processing is tough just to design, let alone making it work! The licensing fees for the development software alone would have been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ask any real development manager what they think of the cost (and, while you're at it, what they think of your 56K modem). No bargain, but no surprise. RE: Cityrail Website costs mentioned in Tips & Rumours, 24th June 2009.

I logged on to the Cityrail website having read about how shocking that MILLIONS were spent on it and am completely unsurprised at the cost. It might only cost a few thousand bucks to develop a website on your home PC, but this thing needs to be accessible by thousands of viewers at once without falling over. More significantly, it receives real-time updates on the current transport status; real-time event processing is tough just to design, let alone making it work! The licensing fees for the development software alone would have been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ask any real development manager what they think of the cost (and, while you’re at it, what they think of your 56K modem). No bargain, but no surprise.

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