Monthly Archives: November 2003

Matrix Revolutions

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I went to see Mat­rix Revolu­tions tonight. I can without doubt say I loved it!
After the frankly mediocre Reloaded, I was pleas­antly sur­prised. I thought this was a great film, they got the mix of jaw drop­ping spe­cial effects and almost bewil­der­ing plot rev­el­a­tions just right. I won’t spoil the plot for any­one who hasn’t yet seen it, but I will say that the final events and explan­a­tions around Neo, Mr Smith, The Oracle, et al were quite sat­is­fact­ory.
There were some issues which stretched the credu­lity of even a hardened Sci Fi fan like me, but that’s no sur­prise given the found­a­tions of the Mat­rix world.
All in all recommended.

MoD writes off £118m on ditched IT system

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I find these num­bers stag­ger­ing, but this story over at silicon.com details how the MoD has writ­ten off a pro­ject which has so far cost £130 mil­lion! They will be keep­ing the hard­ware they already bought for £12.2 mil­lion, res­ult­ing in a write off value of approx­im­ately £118 million.

The Defence Logist­ics Organ­isa­tion (DLO) – the MoD’s internal buy­ing arm – canned a single com­mon invent­ory pro­ject called Defence Stores Man­age­ment Solu­tion (DSMS), which would have enabled more accur­ate tail­or­ing of stock hold­ings, after exec­ut­ives found the bene­fits did not out­weigh the costs.

The depart­ment estim­ates £130.5m was incurred on DSMS, although £12.2m of hard­ware was retained for future use, leav­ing £118.5m writ­ten off without the sys­tem ever see­ing the light of day.

As a res­ult of this they will be over­haul­ing their pro­ject and risk man­age­ment. Hmmm, yes that may be a good idea!