-- Their reservation system is a hosted system in the US. That hosted system went down after a hardware upgrade went wrong. It stayed down for, I believe, 12 hours or more. Many airlines around the world were affected on one level or another.
Cheers, Dylan. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor Johnson Sent: Monday, 27 September 2010 9:10 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Virgin Blue Ouch, the airline blamed the chaos on an "external supplier's hardware failure". Just curious, anyone know what happened? TJ ------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, visit your local office at Caloundra, Maroochydore, Nambour or Tewantin or visit us online at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. If correspondence includes personal information, please refer to Council's Privacy Policy at http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au . This email and any attachments are confidential and only for the use of the addressee. If you have received this email in error you are requested to notify the sender by return email or contact council on 1300 00 7272 and are prohibited from forwarding, printing, copying or using it in anyway, in whole or part. Please note that some council staff utilise Blackberry devices, which results in information being transmitted overseas prior to delivery of any communication to the device. In sending an email to Council you are agreeing that the content of your email may be transmitted overseas. Any views expressed in this email are the author's, except where the email makes it clear otherwise. The unauthorised publication of an email and any attachments generated for the official functions of council is strictly prohibited. Please note that council is subject to the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) and Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld).
