[SGVLUG] Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown

[Arthur Baldwin]

The burning question on my mind is "have they learned anything from this experience"?  Will they try Linux servers next time...seeing that around 90% or more of web site servers are already Linux servers?  I voted for Romney and I knew that something very wrong had happened.  I told myself that Americans could not possibly be stupid enough to choose Obama.  This "meltdown" is poetic justice.  It should teach Republicans that the Microsoft business model (as set forth in the Halloween documents) is not a viable path to choose.  Open source makes sense and now they (campaign managers) have the proof in a hard earned personal lesson.  Let's hope they learned something.



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Really!?!? .. wow... 



Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown
Orca, the Romney campaign's "killer" app, skips beta and pays the price.

"To build Orca, the Romney campaign turned to Microsoft and an unnamed application consulting firm. The goal was to put a mobile application in the hands of 37,000 volunteers in swing states .. Part of the issue was Orca's architecture. While 11 backend database servers had been provisioned for the system—probably running on virtual machines—the "mobile" piece of Orca was a Web application supported by a single Web server and a single application server"

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/inside-team-romneys-whale-of-an-it-meltdown/
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