In hindsight it looks like the product was a poor investment but in most cases it makes better economic sense to modify exisiting "off the shelf" products rather than building from the ground up.

Who knows, it might have been much worse and costly developing something from the ground up and there would then be complaints that they should have modified an exisiting product like Phoenix was.


Here's another boondoggle of BC's SIS costly fiasco that was built from the ground up. Regrets, regrets.




http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/b-c-s-new-95-million-student-information-system-frustrates-teachers-and-school-staff-with-glitches