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Risk Management - A Cautionary Tale
Mr. Ghost writes "By now many people have heard about the fiasco and financial blunder Comair had over the 2004 Christmas holiday. An article on CIO provides a timeline of the decisions that led up to the system failure costing the division of Delta Airlines $20 million. The article points out the need for proper risk management and what can occur when a risk analysis is not performed or ignored. It goes on to mention that although this was a very public failure, this type of system failure can occur in other companies." From the article: "The prospect of replacing the ever-maturing crew management system was floated again the following year, with plans laid out to select a vendor in 2000. But that didn't happen. Over the next several years, Comair's corporate leadership was distracted by a sequence of tumultuous events..."
In the article they say the bad "old" IBM AIX (unix) box and all the other new boxes were HPUX (unix).
Also Fortran is bad...
Also the vendor fixed it in 2 days...
Also green screen bad....
Well if they had just maintained the program it could have been ported from AIX-Unix to HP-UX with the 32,000 change limit fixed.
It is not a question of buying an expensive new windoze based piece of shit ( as noted in the article) but BAD MANAGEMENT. The relatively cheap cost paid to SBS to maintain it and port it to the HPUX was never done by the BRAIN SUCKING ZOMBIE MANAGEMENT who jump from sinking one company by cutting IT costs to parasitizing a different healthy company.
http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/03/1 76254