Mark Hynes
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 05:37:30 -0700
On Jun 17, David Cantrell wrote: > > Out of interest, does anyone know if it's done "in-house" or contracted out? > > (I strongly suspect the latter) > > The latter. Via EDS and Microsoft, I believe. *shudder* EDS. That explains it then! > > > This incompetence is further manifested in their choice of platform. > > > even if I *could* use it, I wouldn't use it anyway, as I do not have > > > sufficient confidence in the integrity of the server for such important > > > information as my (eg) medical and tax data. > > > > Err, why? What do you know about its implementation as opposed to any other > > government website? > > david@lapdog:~$ HEAD http://www.gateway.gov.uk|grep ^Server > Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 > > That, and EDS and Microsoft being involved. Ah, so primarily blind bigotism then. > Note that whilst other government sites may suffer from the same problems, What problems? Other than the people behind it you've not mentioned any. -- | Mark Hynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "What are you trying to incinerate?" |