Saturday, October 19, 2013

Cover Oregon Still Not Functional

First target date of Oct 1 2013 was missed, then the second date Oct 15, 2013 flew by as well, and now they are hoping to be up by the end of October.  The vendor, Oracle Corp is struggling, and may get dinged financially for failing to get the program on track according to Rocky King, the director appointed by John Kitzhaber.
"The product has not been at a quality level that has not been satisfactory to me and they (Oracle) know that," King said, adding that the testing happened so late that the exchange was unaware of the extent of problems.
He says the state has not yet decided whether to withhold contractual payments to Oracle in light of the delays. "I have not been in the mode of pointing fingers, I have been in the mode of getting this up and running," he said.
Documents also show that officials were over-optimistic. According to an application for more grant money in March 2012, Oregon had earlier underestimated its needs.
I hope they do get on track soon or it will be judged a train wreck.  My sympathies to Rocky, he sounds like a good administrator working through a gnarly project.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Comments are moderated for relevance and civility. Spam is discarded.