[Libreplanet-ca-qc] Fwd: [Okfn-ca] Vendor lock in explained to you by CGI

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Merci Josée. Cette seule phrase illustre bien le pouvoir, les objectifs
et les stratégies de ces entreprises.

"The ultimate aim is to establish relations so intimate with the client
that decoupling becomes almost impossible,"
"the whole thing was "built on a sloppy software foundation,""

L'article explique pourquoi l'argument de "reins solides" parfois
entendu lorsqu'on demande pourquoi de telles entreprises obtiennent des
contrats qui auraient pu aller à l'économie locale, en logiciels libres,
ne tient pas toujours, en particulier pour CGI.

On pointe aussi du doigt le système d'appels d'offres:
 "the problem lies more in a federal procurement apparatus that makes it
nearly impossible for an agile newcomer to bid on projects that in the
private sector would take much less time and money."
"It's any collection of government contractors, if you put them
together, will find a way to put together something complex enough to
justify $400 million."

En suivant les liens on voit comment la culture informatique
propriétaire déteint aussi sur le choix de sources de données et
partenaires tout aussi privateurs et épousant cette approche de création
de dépendance, même pour des projets livrés àtemps et dans les budgest
prévus:

"Back in 2009, the White House's Recovery Board retained CGI Federal to
adapt a well-functioning system it had built for the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency into FederalReporting.gov, another very complex,
public-facing and high-volume site that would handle all contracts
granted under federal stimulus legislation."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/16/meet-cgi-federal-the-company-behind-the-botched-launch-of-healthcare-gov/

"The overall solution utilizes MOSS 2007, ESRI Geospatial Information
Services, ESP FAST Search, Business Objects, SQL Server 2008,
Systems Center Operations Manager, Forefront Antivirus, JackBe MashUp
Server, firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, Cisco switches, Fiber Channel SANs,
DELL Server hardware, F5 BigIP load balancers, Amazon EC2 Cloud and EBS
storage, Google Services, Bing Services, and custom-developed web
components."
http://www.recovery.gov/About/Documents/TheBuildingofFederalReportingandRecoveryGov.pdf

On y va même d'une interprétation des réactions du marché et des médias!:
"CGI Group's stock has been on the upswing since its huge acquisition of
Logica, which added $3 billion in market cap. And it hasn't been
punished much by the negative press in recent weeks, either."

Ça se lit comme un bon roman :(

F.

-------- Message original --------
Sujet:  [Okfn-ca] Vendor lock in explained to you by CGI
Date :  Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:11:30 -0400
De :    Josée Plamondon <address@hidden>
Pour :  OKFN-ca <address@hidden>



Au Québec, le seuil de tolérance aux mauvaises pratiques et aux
projets-catastrophes est très élevé.
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Meet CGI Federal, the company behind the botched launch of HealthCare.gov*
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"The ultimate aim is to establish relations so intimate with the client
that decoupling becomes almost impossible," read one profile of the
company.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/16/meet-cgi-federal-the-company-behind-the-botched-launch-of-healthcare-gov/

-- 
Josée Plamondon, MSI MBA
Analyste, Exploitation de contenu numérique

514.969.1273
joseeplamondon.com <http://joseeplamondon.com>