Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Hodgson" <ahodgson@simkin.ca>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.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.ted.byers@rogers.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