linux-l: Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water

[Andreas Fitzner]

Hallo 

Die Navy versucht auf ihren Schiffen mit Hilfe von
COTS ihre Personalkosten zu senken und verwenden
ein LAN mit Windows NT4. Na das kann ja nichts werden:

  Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water
	http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm

Die mussten nachdem sie zwei Tage versucht hatten das
wieder in Ordnung zu bringen, das Schiff in den
Hafen schleppen lassen.

<quote>
But according to DiGiorgio, who in an interview said he has serviced automated
control systems on Navy ships for the past 26 years, the NT operating system
is the source of the Yorktown's computer problems.

NT applications aboard the Yorktown provide damage control, run the ship's 
control center on the bridge, monitor the engines and navigate the ship when 
under way.

"Using Windows NT, which is known to have some failure modes, on a warship is
similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor," DiGiorgio said.
</quote>

bye, Andreas