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dragonwriter on July 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B ...

> Governement often runs on Oracle because

...outright corruption, though that coming brilliantly to light in the 00’s in California is also why comparatively little in California State government does any more. (Also why the trend toward IT centralization in the State was stopped dead in favor of decentralized decision making with central oversight.)

dantheman0207 on July 28, 2018 [–]

Would love to read more about this, any pointers?

happyopossum on July 28, 2018 | [–]

https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2001-128.pdf

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/07/local/me-oracle7

Although to be complete transparent, there are multiple examples of this, so I’m not sure exactly which one GO away referring to.

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