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Software Upgrade Destroys Data For UK Schools
from the yet-another-glitch? dept
There's that word again. Rather than admitting a major problem, the supplier of software used to manage many schools throughout the UK is saying that it was an upgrade "glitch" that corrupted and destroyed plenty of school data, much of which cannot be replaced. Apparently, the firm in question, Capita, told schools to upgrade their software, but didn't bother to do very much testing on the new product -- so many schools ended up destroying their records without any backup. The company doesn't seem too concerned though, suggesting that most schools upgraded without any problems. Why should they care, though? This is the same firm that supposedly also screwed up two other high profile projects ("software problems behind huge delays at the Criminal Records Bureau and glitches during the introduction of the London congestion charge") and yet they still seem to be able to get business from schools.
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crybabies
Fire all their SysAdmins for being so stupid to do a upgrade and not have the data (and the old apps) backed up.
Public Education, latest repository for people to stupid to get a real job.
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Re: crybabies
Oh, the irony,... Looks like you could've used a bit more Public Education. :-)
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