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Re: [LUG] The missing tax discs

 

Henry Bremridge wrote:

> As a nontechie, am I missing something?
> 
> If the details were in a database then all it would require is for
> someone to delete 3 fields: ie 2 minutes of tech time plus computer
> time to remove the fields from 25m records
> 
> £5000 seems a bit extreme

I imagine they'd have to write some sort of proposal, submit it to EDS
for a quote, get the quote approved by all the necessary people, get
the work done and pay EDS, get EDS to do the job properly this time,
pay them again and then extract and send the data.  £5k seems quite
cheap, really.

James

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