Comments by dfwresponder

Posted on May 20, 2009 at 10:19 a.m.

Sorry for the error in paragraph 3!

Sounds to me like the Vendor is saying whatever the county (who just happens to be who they sell to) wants them to say in order to hold off the Auditor. On the flip side, maybe the CUC should have actually researched vendors before endorsing a vendor known to have a SUBPAR court management system.

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Posted on May 20, 2009 at 10:14 a.m.

Travis Bush wrote: "relatively unknown companies to write proprietary software", "You see it all the time in small businesses.". This is way off the mark. While I am not a fan of this company, Tyler Technologies is traded on the NYSE.

This software may be .NET technology, but not all software in this market is. Either way, it should not be difficult to create view only user profiles for any office that requests it. Don't assume that it wasn't designed originally to handle this. These security settings are written into the software and typically found in all apps sold to this market.

Sounds to me like the Vendor is saying whatever the county who just happens to be who they sell to) wants them to say in order to hold off the Auditor. On the flip side, maybe the CUC should have actually researched vendors before endorsing a vendor known to have a court management system.

Be very wary of how much control and power are granted to County Auditors. They are not elected officials and subsequently can't be held accountable to the voter!

On another thought. If the CUC (of which Collin County is a member) gave a $12.4M contract(which appears to have a deadline of March 2011) to Tyler Tech. and Collin County spent $7M on court room management software, what did the $12.4M buy? The article states that it gave access to many different apps to all existing members of the CUC (many apps for many different counties). But one additional app(court room management) for 1 county cost $7M!

A note to consider.....

While the CUC is not exactly a governmental entity, they are at least partially funded (if not fully) by the 34 member counties. Just a lot more tax dollars (12.4 + 7) at work (more like wasted) for the voting public!

Wonder what the vendor had to do to get this setup?

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