On 13-06-13 10:28 PM, Joseph Potvin wrote:
> Not hard to understand...
>
http://www.opentext.com/2/global/company/news/press-releases/press-release-details.htm?id=2034 Sad that there is often a "Canadian" link to these types of failed
technology projects.
Funny --- the LAM community created charity Milan and I work
(Canadiana) for has been mis-characterized in the news this week as
being a "private high-tech consortium" trying to lock away Canada's
heritage. While you need to go to ACTA/TPP/etc for that type of
backward-facing policy, I seem to remember rumors that there was a
person previously involved in similar (digitization, preservation,
access) projects who believed that they needed to partner with OpenText
for these types of projects. That type of thinking might have lead to
the oddball headlines from this week being more true of that project if
it had gone forward.
Note: In case anyone didn't see it
http://mcormond.blogspot.ca/2013/06/good-new-canadiana-lac-project-spun.htmlpokes fun at some of the poor CBC and Ottawa Citizen coverage of the
project this week. The "journalist" at the Ottawa Citizen couldn't even
fact-check that Canadiana.COM was a domain-for-sale and not related to
his story.
Even though the BBC is foreign, there are similar problems here with
government departments, public broadcasters, and publicly funded open-*
projects who make similar administrative mistakes in choosing poor
technology partners. It isn't like the failure we saw in the 2003
Auditor Generals report (Secure Channel & Entrust that time) was unique
-- and we saw how little attention these serious problems get compared
to lesser lost money (sponsorship "scandal") which can be more easily
labeled as partisan.
--
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <
http://www.flora.ca/>
Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
http://l.c11.ca/ict "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
portable media player from my cold dead hands!"
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