16 Jan 2007
The city of Philadelphia is flushing out Oracle from its water billing project after the vendor failed to get the project up and running.
In addition to some serious egg-to-the-face, Oracle is taking a $6.9m hit in costs that is forgave the city as part of the failed project, according to Computer World. Oracle’s enterprise software business traditionally has a reputation of causing projects to fail or come in over budget.
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