tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post4841486572100521883..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: De Blasio "Insources" IT Work For New York Cityreality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-17494679476691589792015-06-05T10:33:58.239-04:002015-06-05T10:33:58.239-04:00I always found it amusing when Mike Bloomberg, who...I always found it amusing when Mike Bloomberg, who'd made his $25 billion fortune building the "Bloomberg Box," which became the standard for information systems in the financial services sector, couldn't arrange to build a single information system for the City during his tenure that either worked or came in less than $100 million over budget.<br /><br />The press, of course, had no interest in holding the Master Administrator and the man who single-handedly rescued the bloated public sector from run to account for the waste--and criminality--connected with every single City IT project undertaken while he was mayor.<br /><br />I've had my doubts about BDB but I give him props on this one.<br /><br />The DOE recently announced that it had developed--inhouse--an app version of the monstrously expensive and hopelessly useless ARIS system, which had been developed by Amplify, the subsidiary of NewsCorp, that Joel Klein now runs, for $95 million. The app keeps the parent-connecting functions of ARIS but loses every other useless piece of it. Though the DOE did not announce how much it cost to develop, I think we can guess that it was more than $1 million but less than $95 million. It even seems to work.<br /><br />Who knows how this will work out over the long run but it's well worth trying, may save the City a lot of money and, of course, will keep City employees working on important projects--and even require that a few more get hired with all the budget surplus money now rolling around City Hall.<br /><br />Harris L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-43254238181241834772015-06-05T10:16:09.256-04:002015-06-05T10:16:09.256-04:00Diblasio is about as good a politician ny educator...Diblasio is about as good a politician ny educators could have expected. IN this day and age of politicians who are total sleezeballs we have a man in Diblasio who truly cares about working people. To even try to compare low life bloomberg, the fake humanitarian is like comparing apples to scum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-42527479707391169042015-06-05T10:09:25.529-04:002015-06-05T10:09:25.529-04:00Hmmmm, what happened when it came to decent wage a...Hmmmm, what happened when it came to decent wage and, future benefits, for the teachers? Mr. I am a Progressive Mayor doesn't always take hold of the big picture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-86787962944497640732015-06-05T09:28:16.842-04:002015-06-05T09:28:16.842-04:00Try this with the doe. Please. Try this with the doe. Please. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com