"Mail of Russia" will create a state e-mail for $ 1.03 billion

Against the background of various news such as the introduction of a mandatory indication of the middle name when sending a parcel (which was refuted ), another interesting initiative of this excellent organization slipped unnoticed.

Pochta Rossii is ready in three years to build a state e-mail system for interaction between citizens and departments

It sounds quite interesting against the background of recent habro-discussions about bicycles ( one and two times ).
For those who do not understand why doing something new with e-mail and why it is not Google that does the first, and Russian Post has a simple answer:

The project will cost 31.1 billion rubles. ($ 1.03 billion). FSUE expects to receive this money from the budget.

Here at this point, everything becomes clear.
Let's try to understand the essence.

The idea of ​​creating a state e-mail was expressed in 2009 by the then Minister of Communications, and now presidential aide Igor Schegolev. The new draft law “On Postal Communication”, developed by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, speaks of the “single postal electronic system” (EPEC).

Something smelled like burned rubber, or rather even with a tire , thanks to Igor Ashmanov for this antipattern. "United Russia" is already there, now there will be another "Unified postal electronic system."

As conceived by the authors of the draft program for the development of postal services, the Post of Russia EPES should use at least three data centers for data security, between which there should be at least 100 km. It should provide work for 100 million users and be unavailable for no more than 5 minutes per year. Taking into account the global tasks assigned to the system, its cost is adequate, the representative of the Post of Russia insists

I wonder where you can spend a billion dollars, inventing another bike? Well, let's say there is not a bicycle, but a real hardware and software solution with three data centers spaced at least 100 km apart. A billion is the cost of 8-9% Motorola Mobility with all assets and technology. Any manager of a western corporation, inexperienced by corruption and misuse , will be very surprised how you can spend $ 1 billion on it .

Source of citations: Gazeta.ru

Something tells me that they will buy 3 servers (data centers) with rollbacks, set up mail servers (a unique unified system), hang up a granary nanoclock (cryptography and security) and ... and now the money is spent and you need new funding for integration with mail and government agencies, developing protocols for delivering messages to officials' computers that are more secure than IMAP + SSH.
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Author angry critic, or is it? I will add a questionnaire on the subject.