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Re:Reporter who told Missouri officials of website flaw did ... by thr0wawayf00 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:19PM (#29100403)
That standardization and automation you're talking about costs money too. Schools deal with technical debt on the IT infra level much like SaaS companies do.

Of course, you should be able to cut a $129k/yr DBA if you just spend the millions needed to streamline the IT systems.

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Re:Reporter who told Missouri officials of website flaw did ... by ivan_gammel on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:02PM (#29100938)
Simple search shows that there are 130 000 schools in the USA. Spending 10M to develop reasonable IT standards and 120M more on compliant software is just $1000 per school. And this is not a military software, it can actually be developed offshore by decent engineers earning half of that DBA salary (that is, you get 2000 _man-years_ of work for those money).
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