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The fights it’s sparked between the military and its main contractor, Electronic Data Systems (now owned by Hewlett-Packard), have been epic. And then there’s that contract; after paying out $10 billion, the Navy still doesn’t own a single router. So it’s giving HP another $3.3 billion dollars — a “hostage” payment, as one Department of the Navy civilian put it, mostly so the military can buy the gear and look at the network blueprints sailors and marines have used for a decade.
Für mich stellt sich da vor allem die Frage, ob EDS ihr Geschäftsmodell von T-Systems kopiert hat oder ob sie dafür Lizenzgebühren abdrücken müssen :-)Unten in den Kommentaren kommen auch ein paar HP/EDS-Leute zu Wort, die natürlich andersherum finden, dass sie da übel übervorteilt wurden, und auch ein Marine, der folgendes schreibt:
Ships run the Common PC Operating System Environment (COMPOSE). It’s essentially a Windows server with a huge and insanely convoluted proprietary set of applications that are all somehow dependent on one another. Not a day goes by where there isn’t something that isn’t working correctly on the network, and when you dedicate time and effort to troubleshoot the problem and then report your findings back to the SME’s at SPAWAR or Juno, you’re told to reinstall the entire server! It’s like someone at Juno decided that since they can’t control the network on the ship, they’ll just make it such a complicated piece of crap that we’ll have no choice but to turn to them and ask why we can’t do something as simple as change a password using their proprietary tools.
Das sind US-Kriegsschiffe, über die wir hier reden. Die können ganze Länder plattballern. Und SO werden die betrieben! OMFG