[NMLUG] Microsoft software implicated in air traffic shutdown

[neosad1st at charter.net (Robert)]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 02:44 pm, Moses Gold wrote:
> another victory for the infinite-monied marketing steamroller.  my question
> is doesn't such a task fit the definition of 'mission critical' and, if so,
> why doesn't the lack of continuous operation capability disqualify it from
> meeting a 'mission critical' standard for software performance?
>
> --- Sean Leffler <SeanL@dpsabq.com> wrote:
> > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39167074,00.htm
> >
> > The newspaper said that a Microsoft-based replacement for an older Unix
> > system needed to be reset every thirty days 'to prevent data overload',
> > as a result of problems found when the system was first rolled out.
> > However, a technician failed to perform the reset at the right time, and
> > an internal clock within the system subsequently shut it down. A back-up

 I'm military, and from what I know, we use Unisys and Oracle on some of our 
very "mission critical" stuff.  I don't know what all we use, however, so 
I'll bet there are other nice systems out there.  I'm hoping to work on some 
of them soon.
 However, for some of our embedded stuff, we use totally from-scratch stuff.

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