Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
Quote:
"Over the summer, the London travelcard ticketing system — called
Oyster — fell over twice, forcing the transport authority to offer
free travel to the six million Londoners using the system. After
that, it cut its contract with the supplier of the system, a
consortium called TranSys. But now, Transport for London has signed a
new contract to replace the TranSys one — with the same two companies
that made up the TranSys consortium. Sure, that should fix
everything."

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/19/189246

It would help if you quoted from the TfL press release* rather than a random
blog. The new contract is with Cubic and EDS, two of the FOUR companies
that make up Transys. (The others are Fujitsu Services, formerly ICL, and
WS Atkins.) TfL have gained ownership of the Oyster brand from Transys, say
they have achieved "better value for money", and I suspect are going to take
a bigger role in managing the work of Cubic and EDS. Awarding the contract
to an entirely different organisation, and probably losing the Oyster name
in the process, would have been a riskier course of action IMHO.

* http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/10442.aspx

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