If you actually read the article you would see it says $25m which is short for 25 million US dollars. Don't they teach abbreviations in UK schools anymore?
Oracle settles with State of Oregon for US$100m, by locking it in
Oracle and the US State of Oregon have struck a $US100m settlement over Big Red's botching of a health portal project. But even though Oracle looks like the villain, it will probably come out ahead in the long term because the state has committed to implementing plenty of its software. The settlement came about after a $300m …
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Friday 16th September 2016 16:48 GMT Dwarf
Summary
So, the summary seems to be :
Botched project rewarded by second bite of the cherry with lock-in and long-term support costs coming in a couple of years time.
I wonder how they expect the deployment to go this time around and what happens if it goes bad again ??
Makes you wonder if there is any desire for any of the big projects to deliver successfully.
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Friday 16th September 2016 21:43 GMT Billl
This proves that Oracle was right.
The state of Oregon is incompetent. Oregon's issues were politically motivated/caused from the start. Oracle loses nothing in this settlement and the state gets to pay millions to Oracle in support costs. All of those products require Oracle DB and other services. Oracle has won big time here, but the politicians get to crow that they won. Oregon tax payers lose!