13. September 2009 by admin.

Enterprise software vendors sometimes play unpleasant games to sell their products. InfoWorld describes these tricks in a story called, Dirty Vendor Tricks, written by veteran journalist Dan Tynan, who has covered many stories of IT failure.

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13. September 2009 by admin.

Poor planning led to the termination of an Internal Revenue Service project to provide online access to tax records, which the agency had spent $10 million to develop, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration reported on Tuesday.

The IRS terminated My IRS Account in December 2008, a project that would have provided taxpayers online access to their tax account information and tools to find assistance for tax preparation. The agency also planned to use MIRSA as a prototype for future delivery of Web-based projects. The IRS terminated the project near its scheduled December 2008 deployment date after working on it for 32 months and spending $10 million.

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