I personally think that this is more a comment on the government tendering systems generally in use, which despite all protests to the contrary, use the cheapest rather than the best solution.
Dave Still smarting after having a week of downtime on our VM System due to an HMC fault. > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Anne & Lynn Wheeler > Sent: 02 May 2008 14:44 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: whitehouse email > > you might find this news article interesting > > Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade" > http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/30/1359209.shtml > > and > > The case of the missing e-mail > http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars > > and for some more whitehouse email from 25yrs or so ago > (that weren't lost) > http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/archive/ > > from nearly the start in the 70s, I had been quite rabid about backups > and backups of backups and backups of backups of the backups. There > has been speculation that orientation carried over to PROFS > deployments. In any case, that supposedly was major factor in the > above reference. > > somebody told me in the early 90s that similar email systems had been > deployed at numerous gov. agencies. > > during the period I was getting to play disk engineer > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk > and working on system/r (original relational/sql implementation): > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr > and doing an internal "sjr/vm" distribution ... a recent refs: > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#26 Assembler question > with this old email: > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email800501 > > I had also implemented what I called CMSBACK ... some old email refs > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback > and > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#email791025 > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email801211 > > which was deployed internally at several internal locations > ... including the internal (vm370-based) HONE systems that provided > world-wide sales & marketing support > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone > > misc. past posts mentioning backup and/or archive > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#backup > > CMSBACK went thru several internal releases and then a morph for a > customer release under the product name workstation datasave > facility. The product name then morphed into ADSM ... and then the > name morphed again and is currently sold as TSM (tivoli storage > manager). > > current Tivoli storage manager reference: > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr/ > > reference to virtual machine use in the gov. even much earlier: > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.cfm > > as an undergraduate in the 60s, i did a lot of system enhancements > that were picked up and shipped in the product. i even got requests > from ibm for some specific changes. > > many years later ... having learned about some of the customers, > i interpreted some of the change requests as of a security nature > and possibly have originated from some such gov. agency.
