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Story: Seven in 10 government IT projects fail

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Valid points, but please declare your interests

Dear Sir,

Many of your points are valid -- and worryingly Government seems to be moving away from rigorous planning for large-scale IT projects. The National Identity Register seems to have had no rigorous planning or testing at all, for example, with none on the horizon.

However, purely in the interests of clarity, I'd like to point out to other readers that Borland does have a commercial interest in espousing software testing, as it is an application lifecycle management company.

Also in the interests of transparency, we checked the email address linked to this ZDNet UK member, and found that it seems to be related to a PR company.

Best wishes,

Tom Espiner

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