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

[Miguel Hernandez]

No QA (or Beta period) will net those results EVERY time hehe. The more
important question is: Did Romney not learn anything from Obama's tech
team? You know, Obama being the first president to ever openly embrace open
source software & whose tech team used open source at most levels of their
IT's organizational structure (starting w/Obama's campaign website all the
way to recovery.gov, whitehouse.gov & its IT spending dashboard just to
name a few). As an example, his IT & Web staff not only used Drupal
extensively but also contributed code back to the Drupal community as well
as got involved via presenting at DUGs (Drupal User Groups), DrupalCamp's &
the largest of Drupal gatherings, DrupalCons.

Here's an initial news blurb:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/whitehouse-switch-drupal-opensource.html
Here's a short video:
http://drupal.org/whitehouse-gov-launches-on-drupal-engages-community

cheers,
--miguel


On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Arthur Baldwin <eengnerd at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> 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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> *From:* matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com>
> *To:* SGVLUGDiscussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, November 9, 2012 3:32 PM
> *Subject:* [SGVLUG] Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown
>
> Really!?!? .. wow...
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> Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown
> Orca, the Romney campaign's "killer" app, skips beta and pays the price.
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> "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"
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> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/inside-team-romneys-whale-of-an-it-meltdown/
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