Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes

itwbennett writes "Oregon is holding back $25.6 million in payments from Oracle (out of some $69.5 million Oracle claims it is owed) over work the vendor did on the state's troubled health care exchange website. The site was supposed to go live on Oct. 1 but its launch has been marred by a slew of bugs and it is not yet fully functional. This week, Cover Oregon said it had reached an agreement with Oracle laying out 'an orderly transition of technology development services, and protects current and future Cover Oregon enrollees,' according to a statement. Oregon officials reached the deal with Oracle after the company reportedly threatened to pull all of its workers off the project and essentially walk away."

Re:Sounds like a good idea to me

[MrEricSir]

If you don't deliver what you've been told to deliver, you shouldn't get paid.

Poor Larry would be living in a cardboard box on the sidewalk in a week if Oracle had to issue a refund every time they failed to meet a delivery.

Re:Good if they succeed.

[Zero__Kelvin]

"I will disagree wholeheartedly"

OK. Just let us know when you get around to it! I do have one question, though ... why the hell don't you just disagree now? Procrastination issues?