[dba-Tech] open source, closed source and healthcare.gov

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 16 17:26:12 CDT 2013


The closed source backend is "burning up under the load of thousands of 
simultaneous users. But it’s not just that the kitchen’s on fire. The 
alarm system doesn’t work either. The waiters can’t hear the screams of 
the cooks. It’s hard for outsiders to tell exactly what’s going on, 
because CGI Federal’s code is locked away out of sight ...".

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-16/open-source-everything-the-moral-of-the-healthcare-dot-gov-debacle

PB


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