Oops. sorry. previous was missent. or sent too early. i was saving
it for editing or censorship or both :). but since it's sent, i may as well
complete the thought, such as it is.
Cagayan de Oro has a Visual Basic based system. It works pretty well
most of the time (at any rate, it doesn't crash when I used to pay my taxes
although it's pretty slow at printing receipts and such, these days i have
someone else negotiate the bureaucracy for me, i'll have to ask her how
well the computer system works). But I'm sure it's very unstable now
because of the beginning of the year business tax and multiple
certifications crush (fire, city health, real estate tax, business permit, etc).
The load on the system (file servers, database servers, network,
workstations, printers, print servers, everything) is highest at this time
of the year.
I'm concerned about data integrity and hackability of their system since
most of the workstations are still 98 (with the typical incompetent
non-security out of the box) and i'm sure they've got any number of
viruses and trojans running wild in there.
From my contacts with their tech people, and what I'm told by people
who are in closer contact than I am, most of their techs spend their
time babying the servers and trying to keep the clients working.
Unlike where I work, where the servers keep chugging along and
if the Windows clients crash, well, I don't care. that's someone else's
lost productivity. I can keep working on developing new stuff or
improving old code because I don't need to worry about the
stability of the servers.
I don't know about Quezon City, but it's probably a good thing that
the Cagayan de Oro City Hall doesn't have an always on high-bandwidth
internet connection. if they did, well, clients and servers would be
cracked all the time. as with most windows installations in the Philippines,
most of those clients are pirated and even if they aren't, they don't have
the budget to purchase one of those fancy windows network management
systems that purport to let you install updates to all the clients en masse.
so they install anti-virus software, updates and OS/application patches
one computer at a time.
God, I'm so grateful I don't work there.
tiger
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