Last year we suggested that you all contact wired magazine and nominate CCMS Version 4 for the 2011 annual vaporware awards. Regrettably, we were copied on some of those nominations where litigants completely undermined the nomination by implying that CCMS (without naming any version) resulted in them being wronged in some fashion.
This year, the situation could not be more clear. CCMS in all forms is dead and smart people within the courts are working on commercially available alternatives. CCMS Version 4 was never deployed to any court and was terminated 5 years and over 500 million dollars after its AOC promised delivery.
Let us repeat that statement if it wasn’t perfectly clear.
CCMS Version 4 was never deployed to any court and was terminated 5 years and over 500 million dollars after its AOC promised delivery.
It’s time to make this a national issue and assist the AOC to inhale the fail. I’m sure that there are those in the AOC that will wear this like a badge of honor and be showered with offsetting judicial council awards regardless because that is their standard M.O.
To earn a vaporware award, a technology product has to be simultaneously overpromised and MIA. A company can’t win for announcing a product that might ship next year. No, they win by not shipping a big product that they promised for last year. Or the year before. etc.
This describes CCMS V4 precisely.
While there has yet to be a call for nominations this year, such a call is likely just around the corner. We would ask that you all contribute to the kind of award that the AOC truly deserves and contact wired magazine and nominate CCMS V4 to the 2012 annual vaporware awards.
Until such time that we figure out where to send those nominations, we would suggest this page. http://www.wired.com/about/feedback/
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unionman575
January 4, 2013
Nice work JCW.
unionman575
January 4, 2013
Hold on to your hats folks! This is a “new” process…
http://www.courts.ca.gov/20493.htm
This is a new process for sourcing hotels and meeting locations and for this program we will be conducting a Pre Proposal Conference Call to answer any questions regarding this specific RFP and the new process. Please call into the number provided below in order to ask your questions in a public conference call. It is strongly recommended that you use this opportunity to ask for clarification on the process, as it is completely new.
Pre Proposal Conference Call: Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 2:00pm.
Please call these telephone numbers:
1-415-355-5487 or
1-866-223-4037
unionman575
January 4, 2013
“CCMS Version 4 was never deployed to any court and was terminated 5 years and over 500 million dollars after its AOC promised delivery. ”
That WAS 500 MILLION DOLLARS OF TRIAL COURT FUNDS.
Gee, I think we could have used that in the trial courts. Don’t ya think?
disgusted
January 4, 2013
“That WAS 500 MILLION DOLLARS OF TRIAL COURT FUNDS.
Gee, I think we could have used that in the trial courts. Don’t ya think?”
I know a few hundred of us that would still have jobs. And they blame it on the budget. Right, whose budget?
Wendy Darling
January 4, 2013
Whose budget, you ask, Disgusted? The AOC’s “budget.” Which is based on the AOC’s “new math,” and includes such budgetary necessities as caviar, Grey Goose martinis, lobster dinners, ipads, swag bags, and european “telecommuting” attorneys.
Long live the ACJ.
Judicial Council Watcher
January 4, 2013
unionman575
January 4, 2013
I ain’t got one penny for you…
😉
AOC'er
January 4, 2013
I think we stole 500 billion pennies already. It would have been two trillion but you all foiled our bosses supplemental retirement plan.
courtflea
January 4, 2013
Gee what a novel idea,an RFP for expenditures for hundreds of thousands of dollars! And this is the same agency that dings courts in audits for not getting 3 quotes for purchases over $500 bucks. Shit
And whats up with Pasadena as a location? How many afforadable mega hotels are located there?
I am soo sick of these hypocrites/assholes.
unionman575
January 5, 2013
I sent in a 2012 Vaporware nomination to Wired today.
😉