Cringley speculates like hell:
Delta Airlines last night suffered a major power outage at its data center in Atlanta that led to a systemwide shutdown of its computer network, stranding airliners and canceling flights all over the world. You already know that. What you may not know, however, is the likely role in the crisis of IT outsourcing and offshoring.
Do any Soylentils have inside/better information?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:55PM
> Or ancient software. The news this morning said that Delta's system had been written by an airline that Delta bought in 1982. I'm sure they've added all sorts of updates over the years, but if the architecture is 30
> years old then yeah, I can see how that might be a problem. Especially considering how much air travel has changed in the last 10-15 years.
Yeah, 30 year old code must be bad. They should have scrapped it and rewritten it from scratch. That worked so well for netscape/systemd/etc
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:33AM
Netscape [seamonkey-project.org] still works for me.
As far as system redundancy is concerned, It has to be made cheaper than lawsuits and insurance/tax write offs for it to happen.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..