Shows the damage that can be done when people who don't understand the
system try to read about it in the paper. I write software to manage
telecommunications infrastructure and I've never seen software that
can run forever without maintenance. We talk in term of the number of
"9's". 2 "9"s is 99% up time, 3 "9s" is 99.9%, etc. Usually 4 "9s" is
the best you can do. When my software fails, new telephone services
(new DSL, call waiting ,etc) do not get activated, wireless companies
cannot detect a tower outage, etc. Even in that environment 4 "9s" is
consider exceptional. The solution is to have backup systems. The
FAA's system in question was the backup system.

-Robert


(No Such User) wrote in message ...
Whoever made this purchase should be in jail:

http://software.silicon.com/applicat...9124122,00.htm

It's shameful that they would trust people's lives to a computer
system that had to be "reset every thirty days" just to keep from
crashing.

Microsoft delenda est.