Reply to: What could be happening at Blackberry I wonder

[PAH]

Surprise no one has posted this

Not quite the same without Barker.

Still, almost as good as the classic four candles/fork handles sketch:

[wantacontract]

Surprise no one has posted this

seen it before but quality....gave me a few

[SimonMac]

Surprise no one has posted this

[TheFaQQer]

It's three days silence in memoriam for Steve Jobs.

[Zoiderman]

one possibility noone has mentioned yet . . .

governments don't like BB encrypted messaging system means they can't spy on citizens

so a few months after BBM gets blamed as a tool used by rioters, the whole system goes down for 2-3 days, could it be possible that now that it's back up BB's encryption might not be so great anymore

can't believe that an org the size of RIM with that many users would have a single point of failure and no resilience network

just another possibility

Ooooh, we like a good conspiracy

[filthy1980]

one possibility noone has mentioned yet . . .

governments don't like BB encrypted messaging system means they can't spy on citizens

so a few months after BBM gets blamed as a tool used by rioters, the whole system goes down for 2-3 days, could it be possible that now that it's back up BB's encryption might not be so great anymore

can't believe that an org the size of RIM with that many users would have a single point of failure and no resilience network

just another possibility

[PAH]

Outsourced to a typical numpty outfit such as IBM?

One with a motto of "keep it complex, keep invoicing. ".

[MarillionFan]

or the alternative blame contractors or temp workers to protect the permies

So we now have:-

Disgruntled Ex-Employee : Evens
Unknown bug in new infrastructure/servers 2-1
Too many Bobs : 3-1
The ghost of Steve Jobs : 4-1
Contractors and Temp Workers : 5-1
Suityou misinterpreting requirements : 10 -1

[Troll]

Odds of evens on

'A disgruntled ex-employee' in the next few stories about this.

or the alternative blame contractors or temp workers to protect the permies

[Churchill]

Odds of evens on

'A disgruntled ex-employee' in the next few stories about this.

Can I have "Too many Bobs!"

[MarillionFan]

Odds of evens on

'A disgruntled ex-employee' in the next few stories about this.

[Troll]

I gather Yahoo recently outsourced several of their groups to Bangalore, including mail, and their web email app has quite often been AWOL or insufferably slow over the last few months.

Thanks.. that explains an awful lot of the problems I've been seeing with yahoo mail recently & why their touted new & improved email client is a pile of poo

Time to switch m'thinks

[psychocandy]

Apparently, it was due to a failed upgrade on a core switch wasnt it?

As someone who works in the comms industry and has spent years and years dealing with large networks like this, I cant understand how anyone would ever attempt an upgrade without even knowing there was a way out if it all went tits up!!!! Always assume the worse. Amateur mistake indeed.

Apparently, the backup switch fell over as well. Reading between the lines - wasnt working in the first place/no-one ever tested it. Also, still dont understand why their network hadnt got resilience/fault tolerance to route traffic past a failed switch AS WELL.....

[wobbegong]

Is that EO's Blackberry, recovered from his back pocket after an egg and spinach curry?

[PAH]

It's the start of the cyber war. Instigated by Apple after Jobs failed to stop the countdown. It's called project Eden.

Evidence: Perfectly timed to coincide with the latest iPhone.