NRA spent £18,000 on armoury software after theft

[Blackstuff]

Now theres a can of worms!

[Fedaykin]

I hadn't thought of it as a full-cost-of-ownership thing, it makes more sense if you lump in all of the infrastructure and training. The quote made it sound as if they'd bought software alone priced at £18k.

As for the actual headline, this might be the only occasion in history when "sniper" is accurate - the gun in question was a Mauser sniper rifle. Shame they then screwed up by calling it a "K89"...

Ah now I guessed that Gaz! It was my suggestion for the more accurate article that you will no doubt write Gaz

Unfortunately people have a poor understanding when it comes to the value of some things, to the average Joe on the street £18,000 is a huge amount of money! In a commercial database sense taking in account full cost of ownership it is peanuts.

Just be glad the NRA haven't done what many a small organisation has in the past and got somebody who says they are a dab hand at Access to knock something up...well unless that is what they did whereupon the headline would be:

NRA get fleeced buying inappropriate and insecure database!

[Blu]

That's interesting, mostly because I didn't know that the UK had a "NRA" as well. I guess not the same sort of thing as ours though? :)

Dude, it's not even close.

[Mike95]

I do not understand how a data base will help security..presumably security depends on keeping the guns under lock and key...a paper register, properly kept, should suffice. The EU Directive 2008/51 indicates that computerised records are required for an RFD from December 2014, but the Home Office directive of 23/12/2014 indicates that either paper records or computerised records may be maintained by an RFD...I assume this applies to the NRA. £18000 seems a lot of dosh to me..better spent on decent locks and a limited access to the keys. How many people have access to the keys?

Mike95

[Fedaykin]

To be honest Mike95 wasn't a paper register, stout locks and limited access to keys the system they already had in place and totally failed.

As already pointed out £18,000 is cheap for a database in a commercial sense, any organisation that processes and holds a large number of items should have a computerised database.

[Mr_Logic]

Databases are expensive.

SQL enterprise costs more than 18K for pretty much any configuration, so it easy to spend that much. 18K is cheap!

[HALODIN]

By contrast MySQL is free, so swings and roundabouts. It can get expensive if you've got barcode hand held scanners as well.

[Demonic69]

They're probably running an Excel spreadsheet with a couple of Macros created by "Dave" the "IT Guy" (probably someone's nephew or brother-in-law) who knows all about computers from his days hacking Xboxes while he coasted through some mickey-mouse IT degree.

[dromia]

mickey-mouse IT degree.

Degrees in digital cartoons?

Whatever next?

[HALODIN]

I contracted for one of the banks at Canary Wharf and I can confirm their business runs on Excel.