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

[Doug Vargas]

Next time I'm TOTALLY DOING THAT :D

Dan Buthusiem <dan.buthusiem at gmail.com> wrote:

>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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>________________________________
>> >> 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...
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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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