Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database

From: "Ted Byers" <r(dot)ted(dot)byers(at)rogers(dot)com>
To: "Alan Hodgson" <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database
Date: 2007-03-08 18:18:37
Message-ID: 094201c761ae$322ca960$6401a8c0@RnDworkstation
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Hodgson" <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] OT: Canadian Tax Database

> On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:15, "Ted Byers" <r(dot)ted(dot)byers(at)rogers(dot)com>
> wrote:
>> They would have satisfied the terms of their contract
>> if, after a few years, and hundreds of man-years, they walked away
>> without delivering anything. That tragedy cost Canada hundreds of
>> millions, if not billions, of dollars
>
> It didn't happen to be a gun owners' registry, perhaps?
>
> (fellow Canadians will understand :)
>
No. This predated that fiasco by more than ten years. In fact, had it been
done right, it would have been a much much larger project than the registry.

Ted

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