transportdirect dot NET
January 16th, 2005
Today the Observer ran a story about how Transport Direct gives rubbish advice.
A quick google search for Transport Direct turns up a case study at microsoft.com. I find titles like Fast Development, Lower Costs and Prepared for the Future.
Best quote:
We have been able to do it at a reasonable cost and in reasonable time frame.
I wonder how much of that £50 million went to Microsoft, and I wonder why they opted against open standards, instead preferring a proprietary, vendor lock-in approach.
Perhaps they’d have been better with an open-access, shared database. A transport wiki with more structure. Description of a Journey, anyone?
Did I mention, they also appear to have missed a lot of very important data. How about cycling?
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