Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 26, 2003 04:43 AM
Here's a link:
<A HREF="http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm" TITLE="gcn.com">Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water</a gcn.com>
Some highlights:
> According to DiGiorgio, who in an interview said he has serviced automated control systems on Navy ships for the past 26 years, the NT operating system is the source of the Yorktown’s computer problems.
> The Yorktown has been towed into port several times because of the systems failures, [Ron Redman, deputy technical director of the Fleet Introduction Division] said.
> “Because of politics, some things are being forced on us that without political pressure we might not do, like Windows NT,� Redman said. “If it were up to me I probably would not have used Windows NT in this particular application. If we used Unix, we would have a system that has less of a tendency to go down.� [emphasis added]
It's odd, but I don't seem to remember the Initiative for Software Choice lobbying to allow the Navy to choose the best software for the job.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 26, 2003 04:43 AM<A HREF="http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm" TITLE="gcn.com">Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water</a gcn.com>
Some highlights:
> According to DiGiorgio, who in an interview said he has serviced automated control systems on Navy ships for the past 26 years, the NT operating system is the source of the Yorktown’s computer problems.
> The Yorktown has been towed into port several times because of the systems failures, [Ron Redman, deputy technical director of the Fleet Introduction Division] said.
> “Because of politics, some things are being forced on us that without political pressure we might not do, like Windows NT,� Redman said. “If it were up to me I probably would not have used Windows NT in this particular application. If we used Unix, we would have a system that has less of a tendency to go down.� [emphasis added]
It's odd, but I don't seem to remember the Initiative for Software Choice lobbying to allow the Navy to choose the best software for the job.
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