National gun register fiasco

handyman · 01-03-2006, 23:09

There is a huge profile of IT people on this forum and some in very high positions in large commercial organisations, they will under stand the size and scale of this project and its related costs.

7 Millions pounds have been spent on the national gun register program so far in order to create a central register of applications both accepted and declined across various police forces in the UK. The aim is to prevent people getting declined and then applying again in a different area where they are unaware of the detremental information that would have declined the application.

Now 10 years after Dunblane why can the register not be in place?

I have been a techy since I was 6, I work in IT now. I cannot under stand how a database can not be put in place within weeks let alone the ten years the have had? If we wanted to put a commercial web site together to take 1 million transactions a year would this seem unreasonable to come away with most of a 7 million budget?

Why do we have to put up with this level of incompetence from PITO?

Why is a glorified database being touted as using cutting edge technology?

Its a database, that can be searched it contains field etc, where is the complication?

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1990-1...112749,00.html

punky · 02-03-2006, 00:59

I'm not a fully fledged DBA, but I have used relational databases of varying sizes, types and complexity, and I really fail to see why this has to be so complicated and expensive.

Escapee · 02-03-2006, 07:08

I'm now working for a very large company again, and its I guess very much like a government department. There are lots of people with many letters after their names who can spout all the acronyms but then go quiet when you start to scratch at the surface.

I am seeing huge problems and it does have a parallel, because the poeple who dont really understand the requirement in enough detail, are the ones selecting the contractor to carry out the vrious work.

This country has become a culture of Bulls**ters

handyman · 02-03-2006, 09:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by punky

I'm not a fully fledged DBA, but I have used relational databases of varying sizes, types and complexity, and I really fail to see why this has to be so complicated and expensive.

I'm certain that there would have even been off the shelf software that could have been adapted for next to nothing.

7 milion and ten years ffs I could have gone and done a degree in database admin and wrote it with my elbows in less time for less money.

Xaccers · 02-03-2006, 11:04

If I know the civil service who are supplying the requirements, they're still probably changing them as we type.