The Singapore government's standard ICT operating environment (SOE) initiative has met with delays but given the scale of the endeavor, one analyst notes that such setbacks are not unexpected.
Dubbed SOEasy, the ambitious project which commenced in February 2008 was meant to standardize desktop, network and messaging components for 60,000 public officers across 74 government agencies. It was originally expected to be complete by Mar. 31 this year.
However, the country's government CIO, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), has indicated that implementation work is still ongoing. Full story
