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

[Stan Slonkosky]

If they used open source software why did the recovery.gov web site cost
$18 million to redesign?

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Miguel Hernandez <migtek at gmail.com> wrote:

> No QA (or Beta period) will net those results EVERY time hehe. The more
> important question is: Did Romney not learn anything from Obama's tech
> team? You know, Obama being the first president to ever openly embrace open
> source software & whose tech team used open source at most levels of their
> IT's organizational structure (starting w/Obama's campaign website all the
> way to recovery.gov, whitehouse.gov & its IT spending dashboard just to
> name a few). As an example, his IT & Web staff not only used Drupal
> extensively but also contributed code back to the Drupal community as well
> as got involved via presenting at DUGs (Drupal User Groups), DrupalCamp's &
> the largest of Drupal gatherings, DrupalCons.
>
> Here's an initial news blurb:
> http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/whitehouse-switch-drupal-opensource.html
> Here's a short video:
> http://drupal.org/whitehouse-gov-launches-on-drupal-engages-community
>
> cheers,
> --miguel
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Arthur Baldwin <eengnerd at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> The burning question on my mind is "have they learned anything from this
>> experience"?  Will they try Linux servers next time...seeing that around
>> 90% or more of web site servers are already Linux servers?  I voted for
>> Romney and I knew that something very wrong had happened.  I told myself
>> that Americans could not possibly be stupid enough to choose Obama.  This
>> "meltdown" is poetic justice.  It should teach Republicans that the
>> Microsoft business model (as set forth in the Halloween documents) is not a
>> viable path to choose.  Open source makes sense and now they (campaign
>> managers) have the proof in a hard earned personal lesson.  Let's hope they
>> learned something.
>>
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>> *From:* matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com>
>> *To:* SGVLUGDiscussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
>> *Sent:* Friday, November 9, 2012 3:32 PM
>> *Subject:* [SGVLUG] Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown
>>
>> 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/
>>
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-- 
Stan Slonkosky
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