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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by ekovarski on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:28PM (#17726351)
... but then the next paragraph paints a different pictuere,

""" It found that the “siloed nature” of the Lotus Notes databases made it difficult for officers to match, verify or search for information. It also found that various systems may contain conflicting information about the same case, or may not reflect the most complete information. Downloading or querying data is made “difficult, if not impossible” because it isn’t inputted in a standard way across databases. """

The contract was awarded to the initial company that built out the holistic platform in 1996 so you've got to wonder how much it has cost them over the last 22yrs.

Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by scarface74 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:22PM (#17729073)
I once worked for a company where the software that ran thier back end was written in Powerbuilder by contractors in 1999. The two developers who were there had been there for 20 years supporting the system and writing stored procedures.
Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by MrEfficiency on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:26PM (#17726991)
This kind of legacy stuff makes my stomach turn.
Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by megaman22 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:27PM (#17727611)
Calling this a "system" or "platform" is probably being very generous. It sounds like a very loosely related glom of Domino databases that grew up organically, probably with a little custom UI sprinkled on top. Notes can be infamous for that kind of thing, worse than Excel even, since it is more powerful...
Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by ekovarski on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:40PM (#17727734)
Most definitely - the systems apparently "talk to each other" throughout the day whatever that may mean in their case.