Don Brunell - Dissing the DIS Building

I suppose we should give the state credit for trying to economize by consolidating its computer systems in one place, but the new Department of Information Services (DIS) building at the state Capitol is raising a lot of questions.

When the contractor was selected in November 2007, the economy was flying high. True, the state’s unemployment rate was ticking up, but it was comfortably low at 4.7 percent. The plan called for a state-of-the-art $260 million, 456,000-square-foot office complex and data center to house most of the state’s computer technology currently scattered throughout multiple...