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Not seen a report yet as to what happened and people I know there say they've no idea so not sure why we're jumping to the conclusion here that it was Accenture, based purely on the fact someone posted a link to a system they deployed over a year ago ...
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Not seen a report yet as to what happened and people I know there say they've no idea so not sure why we're jumping to the conclusion here that it was Accenture, based purely on the fact someone posted a link to a system they deployed over a year ago ...
I just asked them, so I can confirm it is Accenture.
I havent seen any details in the press, but having seen the setups for some banks you'd think these systems would have tons of redundancy built in; whole redundant clusters sitting there waiting to take over in case of faults, seperate locations, seperate networking, the whole 9 yards.. So whatever happened must have been a pretty serious f*** up.. IMHO
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Despite losing its IT operations outsourcing contract, Accenture will continue to be involved in the exchange's software development and has signed a contract extension to deliver development support until March 2010.
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