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

[Dan Buthusiem]

There's nothing like the looks you get after shouting, "Pikachu! I choose
you!" in a voting booth. Oh well... next time...
On Nov 12, 2012 1:43 PM, "John Wang" <red744t at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I don't know if $18 million is reasonable or not, but the programmers and
> the hardwares are not free.    If we look at the effort from the pubilc's
> point of view, even if it did cost the government more by going with the
> open source solution, if the quality and quantity of the contribution back
> to the open source community are good, then $18 million could be a bargain
> for all of us.
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> ________________________________
> From: Stan Slonkosky <stan.ke6zc at gmail.com>
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown
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> If they used open source software why did the recovery.gov web site cost
> $18 million to redesign?
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> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Miguel Hernandez <migtek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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
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> >On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Arthur Baldwin <eengnerd at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> >>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
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> >>
> >>Really!?!? .. wow...
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> >>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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