[tahoeblue]

Do we know if these individuals from tech firms are volunteering their time to help fix the site? If so - I thought we learned during the government shutdown when gov’t employees were forbidden from even reading email, that volunteering for the federal gov’t is illegal.

If these tech titans were hired - where was the advertising and bidding for these contracts. I certainly wasn't able to bid on this work even though I am just as qualified as the people being brought in (many of whom I've worked with in the past).

Seems like the rules apply to everyone but those who are in power.

[GeronL]

They have to at least be paid a certain amount. No one really volunteers for the government, union rules.

[EVO X]

If these tech titans were hired - where was the advertising and bidding for these contracts

I am guessing what happened is that the project contractors had certified Redhat and Oracle DBA's in house and weren't paying Redhat or Oracle for 7/24 support on the project. Now they need 7/24 support..