On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:05 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:57:07 -0700, Mark Seiden said: >> and also, only $20m/year? in my experience, the govt cannot do anything >> like this >> addressing even a single provider for that little money. > > Convince me the *real* number doesn't have another zero.
If they're just crunching CDRs as claimed in the news reports, all it takes is a stack of Netezzas (they were originally designed to crunch detail data for utility billing), an automated etl task for the daily telco dumps, a web interface for the agents to submit analysis jobs that's an abstraction of the sql layer and a couple specialists to write queries for more complex analysis requests. I do more complicated work for the government for less money; $20m/year is easily believable. -Bill -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
