Wow! The mainstream media attention take-up is almost viral: https://www.google.com/search?q=Red+Hat+Obamacare
and from: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/obamacare-tech-surge-dc-ties-99205.h tml?hp=f3 "And Red Hat, based in North Carolina, gets its largest business from the U.S. government ... Red Hat, a multinational company that provides open source software, declined to comment. The firm's name extends beyond the Beltway, but its knowledge of federal IT could help with a massive project that requires some understanding of government process. Oracle also has a history of working with the government." So after the obvious cronyisms (IMHO) for the original contract award going to Michelle Obama's schoolmate from Harvard, *now* they go and look at "the approved vendors list" to see who might actually know how to do something like this, and then give them 6 weeks to fix everything?! Red Hat declines to comment, and even Larry Ellison noted a little concern to his shareholders yesterday. I get an eerie feeling somehow that this is going to end "poorly." Run away, Red Hat, run far, far away! -----Original Message----- From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark J. Bailey Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 9:32 AM To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [nlug] Red Hat at HealthCare.GOV Well, that is kind of my concern. If Red Hat didn't initially have a dog directly in the fight except that the contractors may have selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or JBOSS, whatever, for the project, no amount of money might be worth the cost of being dragged into that mess after the fact only to be inadvertently forced to public share the blame (like Curt suggested). Not being as big as Oracle who can weather a good amount of negativity, Red Hat could come away permanently scarred in the public (business) world. Not too good for Linux's reputation. Thank God Linux is infinitely more than just Red Hat! Again, I really don't know what/why they were pulled in, so am hoping to learn more over the coming days. It would be really interesting to see if Red Hat's presence might have anything to do with Oracle's Linux being essentially based off Red Hat's. Oracle may be why they are involved. I definitely got to Google on it some this weekend. -----Original Message----- From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David R. Wilson Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 8:43 AM To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [nlug] Red Hat at HealthCare.GOV Hello Mark, Doesn't surprise me a bit. Obviously the problem is not RedHat, but the plan for the software, testing and other things that should have happened and didn't. Another problem was the directive to gather all of the information before allowing a search for insurance. That was due to the realization that no one would buy it (or enter their data) if they knew what the prices were. It is a train wreck, with a worse train wreck for the initial plan. I read some of the bill. I was sick by the time I hit page 70, and figured no one in their right mind would even consider passing this mess. Dave On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 07:07 -0500, Mark J. Bailey wrote: > Anyone else find it interesting (and a bit worrisome too) to see Red > Hat so publically displayed as one of the major tech firms being > rushed in for Obama's and HHS's "tech surge" to salvage > HealthCare.GOV? On one hand, who would have thought back in the 90s > that one day a Linux company would stride alongside the likes of > Oracle in the mainstream media? On the other hand, however, the likely > hood that 6 weeks will fix things is anything but certain, so there > could be a lot of egg-on-face for Red Hat if they (all parties > involved) can't deliver the fix by the (unrealistic) deadline. No > doubt, like many of you, I have bitten off my fair share of "damn, I > wish I hadn't agreed to this" projects, so it will be interesting to > see what comes of it. I'm sure it's out there somewhere, but does > anyone know what aspect would have called for Red Hat to be brought in > (short of Linux servers themselves being utilized with > HealthCare.GOV)? > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To > unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk > +unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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