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Database Glitch Grounds American/US Airways

Posted by timothy on from the abort-retry-fail-land dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to numerous news sources, all American Airlines and US Airways flights were grounded for two or three hours this morning. Both problems were caused by a computer glitch in the systems hosted by EDS. Quote: The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down."

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  1. 1st comment whoo hoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st comment whoo hoo

  2. I grounded my plane by cecil36 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to take a chance at getting a First Post!

  3. Not airlines only problem by Sam3.14 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They are almost bankrupt anyway; this might be the last straw for some customers.

  4. How long before someone blames this on outsourcing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How long before we have people googling up EDS and outsourcing and blaming this on outsourcing?

  5. WHAT operating system? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BeOS?

  6. Who rides airplanes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's all about Grethjound and the bus!

  7. Stable Operating Systems by bigattichouse · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (tongue firmly in cheek) I have to say, this wouldn't happen if they ran the best OS in the world.. the commodore 64. Once say my brother yank out a C64 and throw it down the stairs in a rage and it *still* worked.

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  8. And in related news by foidulus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the terror level has just been raised to "Orange" high at the same time that Tom Ridge announced that after the election he will reteire due to financial difficulties. I guess $175,000 a year of tax payer money just doesn't buy a lot now a days.

  9. EDS by nuxx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Interestingly, last night while at a party I burned my copy of an EDS book which was ghost written for the old CEO. Yep, the same CEO that got EDS investigated by the SEC, caused a bunch of employees to lose jobs, etc.

  10. Offtopic reply to sig by gaijin99 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Nice sig, but shouldn't it be "support diversity", or "support weirdness", or something similar? The first ammendment just guarantees people a right to speak, it doesn't mean I have to listen.

    For my money, I see so many "Fuck Whoever", and "GNAA" posts when I read at -1 that I only bother when I'm moderating. Their first ammendment rights a) don't apply to a privately owned board, and b) don't mean I have to wade through the crap they spew to see the good stuff.

    I'm completely offtopic here, but it bugs me to see the whole "first ammendment guarantees an audience" argument.

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