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Tech experts enlisted to help fix Obamacare website
CNN ^ | October 31, 2013 | CNN Staff

Posted on 10/31/2013 1:36:54 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

(CNN) -- Tech titans Oracle and Red Hat are joining the effort to "address the problems around HealthCare.gov," the federal website for Obamacare, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

"As part of the 'Tech Surge,' we've added key personnel from the government and private sector, including expert engineers and technology managers. These dozens of people are strengthening and reinforcing the team we have working 24/7 to address the problems around HealthCare.gov," said Julie Bataille.

The experts come from Red Hat and Oracle, and include Michael Dickerson, a site reliability engineer on leave from Google, she said.

It's been almost a month since the website for enrolling in President Barack Obama's signature health care reforms went live. Technical problems, despite a series of advance warning signs, have impeded the system and provoked anger and frustration.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obamacare; obamafail; oracle; redhat; techsurge
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Microsoft already did, here is their contribution:


21 posted on 10/31/2013 1:55:55 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Aye, I see the problem and it cannot be fixed...the haggis is in the fire.
22 posted on 10/31/2013 1:56:01 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

‘These dozens of people are strengthening and reinforcing the team we have working 24/7 to address the problems around HealthCare.gov,”

DESPARATION move 101. They are sweating.

The more dozens of people they bring in, the more chaos will ensue; less accountability; just read (as had been posted on numerous threads) the mythical man month. IOW adding more people to a late software project makes it later.

All these experts will have a take on what is wrong and how to fix it. Which will be believed? all of them? none of them?

You can’t fix a software debacle with a committee. You can only fix it (if at all) with someone in charge of the development teams — some ONE. Along with someone from the user / functional end who can deliver understandable, logical requirements.

They are building a tower of Babel; there are no firm, logical, understandable requirements. All the experts in the world can’t fix that. ONE expert could, with the proper requirements, which are sadly lacking, and still changing.

The Titanic at least was an engineered system, a hunk of steel. This is a web of complex uncertainty which cannot be reduced to code.

OK they might manage a passable user interface, to fool the public into thinking there is a system behind the facade that actually works. So far they cannot even do that.

The system that Sebelius during her testimony, refused to shut down for security reasons, was down as she promised she would not shut it down.

Just saying.


23 posted on 10/31/2013 1:56:46 PM PDT by AMDG&BVMH (wE)
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To: t1b8zs

I don’t think they are bidding this. They didn’t bid the original KR’s.


24 posted on 10/31/2013 1:58:10 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: ShadowAce
Oracle and Red Hat working together.

Followed very soon after by a revived SCO UNIX patent fight! AGAIN to the nth power!

NOT /sarc

25 posted on 10/31/2013 2:00:24 PM PDT by SES1066 (To expect courteous government is insanity!)
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To: AMDG&BVMH

Is there any way the website could ever be made safe from hackers? Why would anyone ever put their personal information on this mess?


26 posted on 10/31/2013 2:05:22 PM PDT by grania
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To: bert

Isn’t CGI still holding a ton of cash supposedly for Hurricane Sandy relief?


27 posted on 10/31/2013 2:06:34 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: bert
Perhaps there is money left in the CGI contract.

All the corruption money was probably skimmed off the top. I say that because there was a "relationship" between the CGI Corp. suits and the Obama family. It stinks.

They should have hired Oracle or Google from the beginning.

28 posted on 10/31/2013 2:07:31 PM PDT by Rapscallion (What he calls "transforming" is actually destroying.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They never thought of hiring experts to build it in the first place?

They got a great bunch of amateur work out of an amateur company and it only cost $600 billion.

I could do an even worse job for $1.5 trillion.


29 posted on 10/31/2013 2:08:02 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (-)
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>> The experts come from Red Hat, Oracle, and Google

Free market experts working to ensure Socialism...

Thanks guys!!!


30 posted on 10/31/2013 2:08:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Ooh! I just got an idea. Turn the IRS system over to CGI! They need the work.


31 posted on 10/31/2013 2:08:57 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (-)
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To: t1b8zs

They are talking about the well-known Linux firm.


32 posted on 10/31/2013 2:09:15 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Rapscallion

>> They should have hired Oracle or Google from the beginning.

To help in the effort of violating the citizen’s medical privacy?

This is treachery.


33 posted on 10/31/2013 2:10:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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the citizens’ privacy


34 posted on 10/31/2013 2:10:59 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
repeal Obamacare

Repeal Obamacare

Repeal Obamacare

REPEAL OBAMACARE!

35 posted on 10/31/2013 2:14:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: dinodino

My error and apologizes....

Admin delete my post


36 posted on 10/31/2013 2:16:31 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: grania

“Why would anyone ever put their personal information on this mess?”

because the law forces them to if their plans that they liked and wanted to keep were cancelled

Sebelius will not shut down this system that does not protect consumers from hackers — the same consumers who liked their plans — the same consumers that they had to protect from “bad apple” insurance companies that the consumers nonetheless liked — but which consumers they cannot [read WILL NOT because they could after all shut it down] protect from hackers [identity theft a worse outcome than a bad apple policy that the said consumer did after all like] because Sebelius REFUSES to shut down a system that, as she was speaking, was nonetheless down.

Don’t flame my sentence structure! Just trying to capture their logic.

How could Sebelius not agree to shut down a system which leaves consumer information vulnerable, when it is down anyway?!?


37 posted on 10/31/2013 2:17:17 PM PDT by AMDG&BVMH (wE)
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To: AMDG&BVMH

BTW, Forbes said in 2010 they KNEW 93 million plans would be cancelled

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef019b0081c861970c-500wi


38 posted on 10/31/2013 2:18:04 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Right Wing Assault

“They never thought of hiring experts to build it in the first place?”

HA! that would have been too easy.


39 posted on 10/31/2013 2:18:18 PM PDT by AMDG&BVMH (wE)
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To: BenLurkin

You could have gotten more dramatic with a < sub> or a < sup> in there.

What no marquee tag any more?


40 posted on 10/31/2013 2:18:57 PM PDT by GeronL
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