__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 31 March 2007 11:07 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> [Australia:] WA infrastructure dept close to e-mail disaster
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Western Australia's Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI)
>>| has revealed its Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail system is
>>| suffering frequent outages that are creating a risk of
>>| embarrassing public data loss.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/WA_infrastructure_dept_close_to_e_mail_disaster/0,130061791,339274592,00.htm
>> http://tinyurl.com/395b26
>
> Why would anyone even consider putting critical infrastructure on
> Microsoft? We really should be looking for heads to roll in these
> situations; it's one thing giving Windows to secretaries and junior
> managers to make a spreadsheet with a few pretty charts, but to even
> contemplate putting critical public data on such a system? Quite
> ridiculous.
Remember your argument with Dabs? Well, have a look at then latest story,
wherein a hacker held a server/PC for over a year and stole credit card
details of over 40 million people. It's all over the news.
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