Reminds me of an in-house project SQA in roughly 2000.
SQA are the Scottish Exam Board - Schools & FE
They attempted to write new records software - moving from 20 year old Cobol to a database. Budget was some £4m - dug themselves a very deep hole - exams were marked and collated on a spreadsheet so results could go out.
One Glasgow College Student got an A pass in Italian - the nearest he was to Italian was a pizza.
Digging them out of the hole they dug cost the Scottish Government £36million. When you are on fire everything bought in gets a lot more expensive. They bought 2 quite big unix boxes - why 2?
The hardware man at the SQA connected the new Unix server to a 3 phase supply & fried it.
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