Martin Reid
mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Thu Oct 17 02:09:33 CDT 2013
Why would outsiders need to know? Just curious. We use both windows and OS. Something fails outsiders will never know what failed, where it failed in fact outsiders would know nothing at all other than its not working. Why would/should they? Martin -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley Sent: 16 October 2013 23:26 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] open source, closed source and healthcare.gov 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com