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The IT Chaos Tipping Point?

ACM News Service: Sprawling Systems Teeter on IT Chaos.  2004-11-30: It was striking to me, early in my current M.Sc in IT work, to hear how much my IT-immersed classmates were apologists for inability to test software adequately and being helpless to deal with emergent behavior from unanticipated interactions.  This blurb is about how European IT networks are on the brink of massive failures, along with a British initiative to find remedies.  The idea is to mitigate against chaotic collapse, with "risk of this happening is increasing as all EU government departments, educational systems, and health care services are interconnected via the Internet."

The prophetic Duncan Graham-Rowe 2004-11-27 New Scientist article landed concurrent with what appears to have been an exquisite failure in the UK.  It appears that the 10 million Sterling investment in this future remedy is running way behind the loss rate of current and failed government IT projects.

posted by orcmid at 12/7/2004 10:17:31 AM