I guess she means Application Server Provider. Alberto
-----Mensaje original----- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Greg Woodhouse Enviado el: Jueves, 01 de Septiembre de 2005 09:45 a.m. Para: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Asunto: Re: [Hardhats-members] We DO Care ASP = ? (Somehow, I don't think you mean "Active Server Pages".) --- Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this will serve as an excellent test for the local > contingency plans > for catastrophic failrues. As an example, as the VA moves more and > more > toward centralizing their databases, this sort of thing becomes more > and more > of serious an issue. This is one of the reasons that I am not in > favor or > purely ASP solutions with no local backup or operational capability > for even > small clinics. > > Paper backup is, of course, always an option in a non-critical > setting, but in > a hospital that has to continue critical care with need for access to > > existing data, for pharmacy, etc., at least until transfer of that > critical > data to paper, there needs to be a local, battery and generator > backed up > system. > > The flip side of this is what happens if the central data repository > fails if > the local sites do not have backup operational capabilities? > > We have been thinking in terms of terrorism a lot lately, not mother > nature as > "terrorist", but it matters little what is causing the problem in the > last > analysis. Terrorists speak of causing the maximum economic > disruption for > the US as a goal, and causing a catastrophic power or communications > failure > is likely high on their list. Local backup could at least > temporarily deal > with this sort of problems until there is no fuel to keep the > generators > going. > > Roy, you have lived through a minor version of this at Bay Pines so I > know you > know much better than most of us what they are facing now and in the > days to > come in the wake of Katrina. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing > & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
