Comment by coliveira

Comment by coliveira 2 days ago

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If you think about, $600M is enough money that someone somewhere could create an entire new company and staff it with some of the best developers just to get this contract...

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rty32 2 days ago

Or CUNY could hire developers at silicon valley salary and build this in-house.

As other posts have pointed out, it is unclear the 600M figure is accurate.

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pphysch 2 days ago

And if this was the up-front cost, I'm sure there would be more DD about alternatives.

But I'm sure the lock-in occurred long before the bill hit 9 figures.

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