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In the article it says that the £98m was the amount spent during the period 2010 to 2012. It also says that the project was taken over by an in-house BBC team in 2010 (having started in 2008).

Sounds like that cost can't be blamed on Siemens - it was the in-house team's shift.

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It depends on why it was taken in house. If it's because Siemens were making a mess of it, then it sounds like the BBC should have canned the whole thing in 2010.

The BBC have been held hostage by Siemens for a long time due to a very restrictive support contract that basically froze their technical infrastructure in aspic for years[1].

[1]http://old.iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-...

I had understood that to be the total cost but you're right, the article does seem to imply that was only after it had come back in-house. The blog says 'total cost'. If the article is correct then it seems it's ignoring whatever Siemens were paid.

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