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I bet this is an issue with an old mainframe used somewhere in the booking system, something that has worked well but is difficult to fix when things go wrong.
by jonawesomegreen 11y ago
I bet this is an issue with an old mainframe used somewhere in the booking system, something that has worked well but is difficult to fix when things go wrong.
I think there is / will be a lot of money to be made trying to solve the problem of software security and reliability. This is obviously an extremely difficult problem, however the number of ancient systems that we currently have interconnected I think more large scale outages like this are inevitable.
- caminante 11y agoI submit there's more money to be [saved] from not replacing old systems. Case in point, take this HackerNews fan favorite[1] about a school district using an "ancient system" and avoiding $M's in incremental costs. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705830 edit: As mentioned in [1], I assume that at least someone is aware of the cost-benefit of potential projects; in turn, I assume that someone would've pulled the trigger if the $'s make sense.
- igrekel 11y agoTruth is that most reservation systems are built on TPF and it isn't really easy to replace.