Well, it appears that I was largely right...liberal programmers ARE better:-)

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/09/more-geekenfreude/

Some good linkage there to decent techie info about the systems, but in a 
nutshell...The Obama team spent 18 months, using open source and Amazon cloud 
services to scale up their effort doing tons of stress testing; the Romney team 
contracted with Microsoft and a consultant, spent 7 months on it and the whole 
system was dependent on a single web server in the Boston HQ...

Team Romney brought a Commodore64 to a supercomputer fight.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
UA College of Pharmacy


On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> (note, the people in charge of Romney's website and IT stuff snagged some 
>>> of those $50K bonuses in August…That was money well spent!)
>> 
>> Yes, it's not comforting to learn that they had no beta testing phase at 
>> all, and rolled it out like that. Arrogance or ignorance?
> 
> This is what you get for hiring consultants to do your core business 
> functions…oh, wait, that was Bain's entire business plan…either that or 
> liberal programmers are just plain better than conservatives :-P

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