State government computer woes surface once again in Montana
| April 10, 2008 |  View for printing |
What is it about the state and its computers?
About five years ago, the state gave up on a substantial portion of a new computer system after squandering millions of dollars — $55 million by one reckoning — trying to get it to work right.
The system that never worked dated back to the Racicot administration, and only in the past few years was the state able to dig out of the hole the system's failure created. Now comes news that 5,059 state computers scattered across 12 state departments, the governor's office and the courts are operating unlicensed software — computer programs for which the state should have paid.
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