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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?"

4 of 404 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Answer: No. by Virtucon · · Score: 5, Funny

    No but I heard 18 Women can do it in two weeks. The guy from Infosys told me so.

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  2. Calvary? by themushroom · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a Biblical reference -- and at this rate it would take divine intervention.

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  3. Re:Answer: No. by Jstlook · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wife saw that book on my shelf last night and asked if it was related to a man's period. I had to chuckle.

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    ---jstlook ---For that is the way of Elves, for they say both yes AND no, and mean every word of it. --- J.R.R.T.
  4. Google?.... by tooyoung · · Score: 5, Funny

    Crap, now the NSA will have a backdoor into the government!