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Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade"
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "We now know how the Whitehouse managed to lose about five million emails. It seems that they 'upgraded' their Lotus Notes system, which had an automatic retention and backup system, for Microsoft Exchange, which did not support the automatic system. So they changed it to a manual process, where aides would manually sort emails one by one into individual PST files, which they call a 'journaling' archive system. They're still building a replacement for the retention system. Right when they had one finished, the White House CIO complained that it made Microsoft Exchange too slow, so they hired yet another contractor to build another one, causing a senior IT official to quit in protest. So they still haven't completed the project after almost eight years, and rely on humans to sort millions of emails."
read the summary and understood the Whitehouse is blaming Microsoft? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
There is nothing that will happen for the rest of the week that can make me more light hearted than this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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The White House's failure to follow records retention laws was due to deficiencies in Microsoft software?
I predict this will lead to a civil, thoughtful Slashdot discussion which results in many useful recommendations for avoiding similar problems in the future.
I recommend fire.
Computation and Turing machines and all of that science stuff are just theories. The so called "experts" tell us that these things can sort email, but it's better to trust the people to get about the business of the government. I wonder if Bush looked into the eyes of Bill Gates and saw his soul? Maybe if we allow enhanced interrogation methods, we can recover the email? Ahh, too easy, I could go on for hours but I'll stop now.
"Mission Accomplished"
Basically this comes down to either:
The Government was Incompetent.
or...
The Government is lying and covering up.
Hmmm.... Mr Rock, meet Mr Hardplace.
rely on humans to sort millions of emails
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
and rely on humans to sort millions of emails.
No problem. They had the job outsourced to India.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
"Upgrading our Lotus Notes with Microsoft Exchange allowed White House staff to cut jail time by more than 83%."
http://www.dieblinkenlights.com
If your TCO without Microsoft products losing your data includes jail time then I think that's pretty compelling evidence that Microsoft does lower your TCO...
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Too bad that you're grammer sucks, you meant?
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No, he suggested that Microsoft patriotically gained access to electronic communications in an effort to prevent terrorism. If the subjects have nothing to hide, what do they fear from Microsoft's oversight?
Nothing wrong with Lotus Notes, the constant crashing, extremely unintuitive UI, bloat and countless other problems generate jobs by the tens of thousands at IT helpdesks.
Thank you IBM for bringing me a pretty darn good income with the monstrosity known as Lotus Notes.
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You too can be a CIO! Just learn how to play golf, join the right country club, and let one of Microsoft's sales representatives nibble on your sweet, sweet braaiinnnsss!
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That's so true!