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A difficult financial year for computer projects in BBC News. First there was the still-unexplained delay to the new MeteoGroup weather system, which meant an extension to the existing contract with the Met Office - and presumably, some double-spend. Now I hear that the roll-out of the replacement for the old warhorse newsroom computer system ENPS has ground to a halt. 

The new system, Annova's Open Media, is in operation on Salford and the West Midlands. The anxiety with delays to this sort of implementation is that, when the time comes for switchover, the hacks will have forgotten all their training and have to be put through it again.