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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 07:24:18 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: IRS COMPUTERS "DO NOT WORK IN THE REAL WORLD"

>From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
>Subject: IRS COMPUTERS "DO NOT WORK IN THE REAL WORLD"
>
>Pull the plugs, I say.
>
>And do it NOW!
>
>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>
>
><snip>
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>>Excerpts from
>>>************************************************************
>>>Edupage, 2 February 1997.  Edupage, a summary of news about information
>>>technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a
>>>Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities
>>>seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.
>>>************************************************************
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>>IRS COMPUTERS "DO NOT WORK IN THE REAL WORLD"
>>>An Assistant Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service has conceded to a
>>>panel created by Congress that a $4-billion computer systems modernization
>>>project has failed, that IRS computers "do not work in the real world," and
>>>that the agency is incapable of bringing its computer capabilities up to
the
>>>right level because it lacks the "intellectual capital" for the job.  He
>>>proposed contracting out the processing of paper returns filed by
>>>individuals and abandoning a "big bang" approach to systems
modernization in
>>>favor an incremental, piecemeal one.  Though characterizing the systems as
>>>"dysfunctional," the administrator told that panel that the IRS "is wholly
>>>dependent on them."  (New York Times 31 Jan 97)
>

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