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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (747845)	10/18/2013 2:34:49 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571401

Consider the complexity of the Obama website, Ten. I agree it was poorly designed, and should have allowed people to LOOK at the insurance options in their state without their identities being verified. Identity and fact verification should have occurred when the people went to buy insurance. The testing and especially load testing ( I read they can handle 50k apps at one time! By DESIGN! ) and the requirements were ridiculous, and should have someone's head rolling. To verify my identity, the website has to connect with God knows what kind of systems at the SS admin and IRS, and who knows what others? How overloaded with queries are THOSE systems? Which, for all we know, are technologically ancient legacy systems. To sell me insurance, it has to interact with the different systems of as many insurers as are on the exchange in that state. Probably better and more modern than the government systems, but still.. To compare it with a commercial site like Amazon or the rollout of a computer game is ludicrous. But - that's what people have to compare it with. This site is a monster of complexity piled on complexity.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (747845)	10/18/2013 9:05:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571401

the feds may have screwed up but it will be cleared up. Yeah, that was the same view I had with regard to the launches of Sim City and Diablo 3. The anger, IMO, was overblown, and the "h8rz" need to get a life. Launch issues are always temporary, and eventually they get cleared up. But that will never clear up the black mark that the piss-poor launches created. In this day and age of the Internet, launch issues should be foreseen and should be easily dealt with. Cloud computing takes care of server capacity issues. Many companies have launched new web sites, new products, and new shows with few to no launch issues. Okay......this is getting crazy. You're assuming all users are computer literate. And yet, I have met 20 and 30 somethings who think cloud computing is another type of weather forecasting. How much are the users' ineptness contributing to the problem? Probably more than we know. Secondly, due to the nature of the law, they made the website more complex than it needed to be. In the states that went in it on their own, they made their websites much simpler and that approach is proving to be far more productive. In other words, this is not a new problem. No kidding. How long have they been launching cars..........and car companies still screw them up. And lets not look any further than the 787 launch by Boeing. How long have they been building and launching planes? Is your heavy criticism maybe due to the fact you don't like Obamacare and that this is happening under a Dem president? Yeah, I think so. As for why the ObamaCare web sites ran into issues, hindsight is 20/20. There were some people who were sounding the warning bells months ago, but they were silenced, probably due to political reasons. Any delay in ObamaCare would be seized upon by Republicans as an excuse to obstruct or "repeal" it. You mean Rs were silenced? Really? When do Rs ever shut up? Well now you see the result. Launch issues and embarrassment among the ObamaCare advocates like yourself. Fortunately for you, the headlines mostly focused on the government shutdown and not the problems with the ObamaCare web sites. But I believe this will just be the start of all the problems that will pop up thanks in part to ObamaCare. Thank you for your 'objective opinion'. It will be noted. Why? Because Obama is behind it. Then it's Obama's fault that the web sites had launch issues to begin with. And it was Obama's responsibility to consult the experts, especially here in Silicon Valley where he'll find a LOT of intelligent sympathizers willing to help his one signature achievement become a success. Why didn't he? Because he is incompetent. No leadership whatsoever. No resourcefulness. LOL. Like you would know...........after all, you voted for GW Bush............TWICE! Enough said.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (747845)	10/18/2013 10:45:29 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571401

In this day and age of the Internet, launch issues should be foreseen and should be easily dealt with. I agree with you. The problem is, we are talking about bureaucrats. While I agree with you that there were better decisions, heck I could have done a better job, the reality is they went with the safest choices. Which meant the biggest names. After all, no one ever got fired for using IBM, Intel or Microsoft. I can pretty much guarantee that everything was done in .NET or perhaps PHP and not something like Ruby on Rails. Granted RoR is a resource hog, but scaling is a flip of the switch type of thing. The safe choice was old tech. But that doesn't scale.