=============================================================== From: Dave Brockman ------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I fail to see how "existing staff" could develop a project such as this and it be at "no-cost". The Existing staff volunteered their after-hours time to develop this project? (I like where he's going... but come on....) Regards, dtb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk88lfcACgkQABP1RO+tr2QYyQCgg3832k7ZcAOczz63eOVoZufN XC4Ani5XiW3hSWT4P5aMELksAZA/2yy2 =SbLf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
=============================================================== From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ Hopefully. A little competition is a good thing. But I think the goals of both systems aka "websites" are very different. In reality it probably means the County had more realistic goals and in-house IT said: We can do that. Re: Cost. It's just a numbers game. Pay someone outside to do a lot of it, drive the process, etc... or bury it in interal payroll and other costs. Both methods have an internal cost in people, time, infrastructure, etc.. Just weighted differently. Hopefully, the county leveraged some non-microsoft centric technologies and built on open extensible standards that will allow them to share data effectively. ie: Linux, etc...