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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. Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You probably guessed it already - according to this article EDS' systems run on MS Windows.

  2. Must...resist... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: -1, Troll

    The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down.

    Okay, EDS runs you-know-what and this is just too easy. So here it goes for a change:

    So, like, that's what you get for running Linux. If Linux was open-source, at least you could fix the kernel and things like that wouldn't happen. Because ya know, a million eyes looking at the same code are pretty good to spot bugs and all. But no, Linux is bug-ridden and that's a big Thank-You Linu$. Now, if they had used Windows...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. And like the September 11 hijackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you crashed and burned. Congratulations on being such a pathetic failure. If I were you, I would kill myself. Then again, you'd probably fail that, too.

  4. Re:I grounded my plane by CmdrGoatse · · Score: -1, Troll

    YOU FAIL IT

    ,---YOUR DADDY
    0
    /\__o <--- YOU
    > > \

    --
    | ` /
    | \,X`\ HEIL HITLER
    | .
  5. I warned you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's what you get for running Linux.

  6. Re: And in related news by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Troll


    > 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

    Probably has more to do with the latest election polls.

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