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US Secret Service IT is 1980s mainframes, only up 60% of the time
- dutchflyboy 17y agoWow, that's old! Just by looking at Moore's law: 30/1.5 = 20, a machine of the same size would have aproximatively 2^20 times more power!
- philwelch 17y agoI don't know what's more worrying--the state of the Secret Service's IT, or the prospect of the government attempting to replace all of it with an ambitious new IT development project.
- wheaties 17y agoIf you haven't worked in government contracting you don't know just how spot on this comment is.
- astine 17y agoI work in government contracting. Working on one of those projects right now. Let's just say the words 'value enginering,' are a very hated expression where I come from.
- aswanson 17y agoIf you haven't worked in government contracting read this: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/who-killed-the-virtual-case-file http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/who-killed-the-v...
- wheaties 17y ago"...poorly defined and slowly evolving design requirements; overly ambitious schedules; and the lack of a plan to guide hardware purchases, network deployments, and software development for the bureau." Yup, that's about how it goes.
- rbanffy 17y agoI'd buy a couple 327xs if they come up in an auction!
- CoachRufus87 17y agosad (and terrifying)
- cmelbye 17y agoJust goes to show you what red tape does. It's sad that servers that even the smallest startup uses are more advanced and modern than those of the United States government.
- rbanffy 17y agoThere is no need to throw out something that works well, however old it is. New startups will end up using the more modern stuff, just like older ones will end up with slightly older equipment. That's not a problem unless if affects reliability. That, of course, assumes the government solution works fine, something the article says it doesn't.
- d2viant 17y agoThere's part of me that actually feels relieved at this news. If these are the same people enforcing the Patriot Act, I feel like I have a fighting chance now.