RE: Interesting article...

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Steve & Charles:

A (potentially) independent discussion of the situation in general:

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/12/28/comp12-28-2004.html

I'd toss a few opinions along with this, but time is not kind.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>On 5/4/05, Wilt, Charles <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Just a quit reply to go with my last.  Didn't realize you were giving a link 
>> to the /. discussion that took place right after the system crash.
>> 
>> I was thinking you were referring to the /. discussion of the article itself.
>> 
>> You're correct, that the link you posted has some good info.  Haven't run 
>> across any posts saying that the bug ( or more importantly its affects) were 
>> know.  But I'm not through them all yet.
>
>I haven't either Charles. I am guessing on all of this, but based on
>my experience, what we all have learned in our careers, users and
>programmers become specialized in packages.   Comair was using a
>package for their crew scheduling system.  So it has to be that those
>specialists were aware of the parameters of the package.  The fact
>that management does not listen to the specialist is not surprising -
>but it just focuses the blame where it should be - the DP managers.

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