Cannot Compute

A letter in Metro yesterday (30/8/06):

I write in response to your piece saying the future of the NHS's £12.4billion Electronic Health Record is in doubt. According to experts, the IT project 'may never work because of the sheer size of the NHS'. Yes, and Google may never work because of the sheer size of the Internet. The sad truth is that if, instead of designing software by committee and hiring expensive underperformers to implement it, they hired some smarter people, the project would have cost a fraction of what it has and would have been completed in a lot less time than ten years. But governments and City corporations alike will never learn when it comes to IT.

Well said, Bas Scheffers of London SW12!