H'mm - just found this pearl:
http://www.eds.com/services/casestud...oads/afpaa.pdf
EDS is taking a measured, evolutionary approach. This will help AFPAA meet its prime objective of maintaining existing service levels with minimal disruption as the new solution is phased in.
Uh huh. EDS will give us a system that lets some people log on today and some more tomorrow - measured. Today you can log on, and tomorrow you might actually be able to access some useful apps, like put in leave (couldn't do that today, despite trying about 20 times) or look at my pay slip (ditto) - evolutionary.
I suppose they are meeting existing service levels - only its not because the clerks are off on a tea break or 'having a fag', or PSF is closed for 50% of the time so that the poor overworked souls can catch up on paperwork, its because EDS couldn't take a working application from Oracle, match it to working hardware form HP and actually make a distributed database work!