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Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov

Posted by samzenpus on from the with-a-little-help-from-my-friends dept.

wjcofkc writes "The United States Government has officially called in the calvary over the problems with Healthcare.gov. Tech titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google have been tapped to join the effort to fix the website that went live a month ago, only to quickly roll over and die. While a tech surge of engineers to fix such a complex problem is arguably not the greatest idea, if you're going to do so, you might as well bring in the big guns. The question is: can they make the end of November deadline?"

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  1. Re:Answer: No. by Bite+The+Pillow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The dollar amount has been repeatedly debunked and you're an idiot for mentioning it.
    But apparently in the middle of the night, the site is still slow and hit and miss. To that point, the architecture has to suck balls. It needs rework badly, complete rewriting.
    It is easy to say this upfront and be accidentally right. But it is harder to study and conclude this is the only course of action.
    I continue to preach caution in conclusions, but there is no arguing alternatives if you have kept up.