[SGVLUG] Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown

[matti]

Really!?!? .. wow... 



Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown
Orca, the Romney campaign's "killer" app, skips beta and pays the price.

"To build Orca, the Romney campaign turned to Microsoft and an unnamed application consulting firm. The goal was to put a mobile application in the hands of 37,000 volunteers in swing states .. Part of the issue was Orca's architecture. While 11 backend database servers had been provisioned for the system—probably running on virtual machines—the "mobile" piece of Orca was a Web application supported by a single Web server and a single application server"

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/inside-team-romneys-whale-of-an-it-meltdown/