ACT Government email woes

“The party line remains that the system is highly reliable.”

I guess that would depend on how you define ‘reliable’ now wouldn’t it?

No, I think that one’s designed for the Barbra Streisand fans. I’ve never heard of anybody running anything important on it.

CraigT said :

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I thought OSX was the operating system for children.

Craig, I get the vague feeling you’re not a fan of microsoft? You should just come out and say it 😉

This sort of thing is inevitable when organisations use Microsoft products instead of running their email on reliable grown-up software running on a reliable grown-up operating system.

The various obvious risks of email outages where I work staggers me.
“What happens if this here breaks?” I ask them.
“Oh, email will go down”, they answer.
“Well, why don’t you provide some redundancy by doing X?”, I wonder.
And then follows some incomprehensible excuse as to why it is not possible to do obvious and sensible things.
It’s all too hard, either because the software is crap or the people in charge of the email don’t understand it. Probably a bit of both.
Either way, the important systems don’t run on Windows and I always find the panic amusing when email or the internet access goes down when the crappy Microsoft servers have crapped out again.