[SATLUG] Fwd: Slightly OT: City 911 system crashing due to MS serve

[Channing]

Hey gang - This was posted on Austin Lug this morning.  Thought I'd pass 
it on...

Channing

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Subject: 	[alg] Slightly OT: City 911 system crashing due to MS server
Date: 	Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:51:30 -0600
From: 	Joe Barr <joe at pjprimer.com>
Reply-To: 	The ALG General Discussion List <alg at austinlug.org>
To: 	ALG <alg at austinlug.org>



Quoting from this morning's paper:

<quote>

The e-mailed memo to representatives from the police and fire
departments and Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services also
listed dozens of other less serious complaints, which officials said
they are working to correct.

"The officers on the street depend on it to work," said Detective Mike
Sheffield, president of the Austin Police Association. "We shouldn't
have to put up with a (computer-aided dispatch) system like this."

Garza said the same thing appears to have caused both crashes, and the
problem has been traced to the city's Microsoft server, a component in
the $6.3 million dispatching network by TriTech Software Systems.

Microsoft officials could not be reached for comment Monday.

</quote>

Gosh, you think maybe they chose the wrong OS at the City?



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