Graham Sands (Optum), Emmet Townsend (Vocalink), Rick Bernard (Optum) And Catherine Foley (Optum) — graham sands (optum), emmet townsend (vocalink), rick bernard (optum) and catherine foley (optum)

I subscribed to a thread here and i was surprised to see graham sands still walking the streets.

Also, it looks like all the comments from these two sites were deleted due to frivolous legal threats.
www.zdnet.com/article/how-big-a-place-for-misys-open-source-in-healthcare/
www.zdnet.com/article/can-open-source-make-mike-lawrie-a-winner/

This is sad, but here is what was deleted by misys/finastra. New post.

Graham sands (Optum), emmet townsend (Vocalink), rick bernard (Optum) and catherine foley (Optum) were in charge of moss (Misys open source solutions). The only product that came out of moss was climate registry information system (Cris) also known as mers (Misys environmental registry system).

There were only two developers for moss; both in bangalore, india.

In india, it is expensive to hire contractors because contractors work for services companies and you have to pay the services company quite a bit of money for a contractor; instead of paying peanuts to an individual contractor. So, instead of hiring contractors, graham sands (Optum), rick bernard (Optum) and their blatantly racist buddies would hire full time (Aka permanent) employees and work them twelve hours a day, seven days a week, for $5, 000/year. They would even call them at 3 am (Their time) and ask them to work. When the workers were completely drained, they would just flush them, and repeat.

The requirements for the software would change everyday and graham sands (Optum), emmet townsend (Vocalink) and the rest of them would claim that it's agile. Not only did they not understand how software is made, they had no respect for the complexity of a task. They demanded that tasks be done instantly. Graham sands (Optum), rick bernard (Optum) and the rest of the crew would constantly send emails to the two developers, copied to their managers, threatening dismissal if the two developers did not complete what would normally take weeks to do in a few days. If someone tried to tell them what a task entails, they would say it's bs.

Graham sands (Optum) and catherine foley (Optum) made the client do all the testing and told developers to hardcode data, hide bugs and make bugs look like features. When the software broke, and this happened a lot, they would put all the blame on *one* of the two developers and he/she would get kicked out of the company.

Graham sands (Optum) demanded immediate response. Even if you were an hour late replying to his email, he would throw tantrums; but if you you emailed him with a question/concern, he would not respond.

During meetings with clients, graham sands (Optum), emmet townsend (Vocalink) and the rest of their drinking buddies would make off-color jokes about the client being a bunch of hippies and tree huggers.

Emmet townsend (Vocalink) was fired. Then, around the same time, rick bernard (Optum), graham sands (Optum) and catherine foley (Optum) were fired.