[Oldeconomybuyer]

Train wreck.

[SkyDancer]

So like they didn’t bother to test out the software before going on-line with it? Huh?

[ClearCase_guy]

Well after development, testing, and deployment, you know, after all that has been accomplished, you can always go back and re-visit the DESIGN. Fixing that will be easy, right?

[DManA]

On the Mn site there is a field to enter your telephone number. You had to type in EXACTLY the area code, surrounded by parentheses, then three digits, a dash, then the last four digits. If you missed any of this the whole form was reset and you had to start over from scratch.

[LyinLibs]

I was told they road-tested it.

[Liberty Ship]

Was it SAP?

Seriously, looks like no testing and no stress testing was done.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Give us 3 more years and $10B and we’ll have most of the bugs worked out.”

[SoFloFreeper]

NBC, covering for the Clown. Again.

[nhwingut]

I’ve been in systems networking for 25 years. The idea that this is a glitch is laughable. This is an epic disaster. And to think they three years and billions of dollars to build it. Talk about incompetence.

[ConstantSkeptic]

Hmmm... Looks like the Project Orca programmers did find employment after last year’s election.

[petitfour]

Did Barrycade hire foreigners to design the websites? Hubby’s experience is that foreigners have no clue how things work globally and tend to create more glitches than they fix.

[SecondAmendment]

Your tax dollars putting H1B Visa holders to work.

[McGruff]

Sure. They always blame the software first.

[UpInArms]

I build sites. CNN video showed a page brought up by reporter that had a drop down list (select) that was empty. The select options (items to select ) are hard wired into the HTML or are dynamically created from a server database. I'll bet the database is not connected.

They have had millions and years to create a pile of scheisse-bytes. I would have at least the registration portion, where this was failing, up and running in weeks.

The system is a joke.

[slouper]

Relax everybody, it’s just a glitch, no worries, NBC said so. It’ll be worked out.

Sheesh!

[nonsporting]

How can they say anything definitive about the true cause of failure, and lay it at the doorstep of design?

One must do extensive testing to determine the cause or causes of failure.

The design may be fine. A rushed and poorly tested implementation is more likely.

[Cementjungle]

Anyone who has ever read "The Mythical Man-Month" knows that the more resources one throws at a big software project, the more complex it gets and the longer it takes to complete.

Instead of spending $330 million on this monstrosity they should have paid some kid geek $20,000 to write the thing. It would be working fine if they had.