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HP will pay Sky a total of £318m to settle a landmark court case over a botched customer service systems deal. The deal was worth only £48m when it was won in 2000 by EDS, which HP bought in 2008. Sky parted with the contractor acrimonously in 2001, and the installation eventually took six years and cost £265m, the High Court …

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  1. Is it me?

    And the moral of the story is...

    Don't screw with Rupert.

    There is no such thing as business at any price. But one has to wonder about the quality of the BSkyB end, not to realise that the deal was duff, or maybe they new, and made the decision to take EDS for a ride.

    So how does this compare with government IT procurement failures?

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  2. Ascylto
    Big Brother

    Never!

    "...a botched customer service systems deal."

    EDS?

    Surely not!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    But Mark Hurd is on Rupert's Board!

    Surely he can get a discount for HP:

    http://www.newscorp.com/corp_gov/bod.html

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