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.
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