Ray Mullins wrote:
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Sent: Thursday September 01 2005 09:51
R.S. wrote:
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But seriously what sense is to continue data processing for
customer
base which suffer from disaster. Is it important that HR system in
public transportation of New Orlean is out of service ?
Well, yes. The employees of that system remain employees
even though the service itself is not available, and they
might need to submit (for example) medical claims that must
be honored, preapprovals for certain procedures, and so on.
Also, HR systems often feed payroll systems...and people who
worked hours last week probably expect to be paid for them
even if they cannot work this week--and probably need the
money more than usual.
That was probably a bad example. NORTA's web site
(http://www.regionaltransit.org/) is down, and probably has been since the
UPS and generators died.
Who needs this website now ? Does one want to check bus time schedule ?
IMHO people there need water, food, medical help, gasoline, electricity
(place what you want in orderd you want). Computer system would be at
the end of the list IMHO, after the electricity and communications
(otherwise nobody would use it). Yes, there are more important systems,
like communications, GSM, POTS switches (these are also computer-based),
but there are also less important like majority of websites.
BTW: We had big flood in 1997 (the biggest in last 500 years) in
Wroclaw. One of the few things that survived was Internet communications
and servers. They were located above the flood (water) level. However
many houses were located under the level and suffered much. People
needed water, water and water, after that food, clothes, some medical
help. I don't remember any complains on any computer systems, even
telephony (well, GSM phones were mostly in order).
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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