Is this DXC's fault? Or more an issue of running infrastructure from the 1970's????
The Unimatic system is used by airline United Airlines to store flight information, with the system going down on Wednesday for reasons as yet unknown. The company confirmed that the outage was not due to a cybersecurity issue.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/flights-resume-after-united-airlines-outage-grounds-flights/
@mn "celebrating its inevitable end" -> There will definitely be a cheer you can hear across Newcastle and other major centers where DXC has operated over the years when it happens. Note the when!! At least then nobody need check this stream ever again.
The real fools are the ones who call everyone else thick for staying, yet admit they left years ago — — so why are you still so hung up on checking how DXC’s doing every day?
DXC is living rent free in their heads, or lying, or celebrating its inevitable demise.
@cq It’s a great job if you can tune out the noise. Sit back, watch quietly, and vent here for therapy. What you do or don’t do doesn’t matter, as long as you fill in the timesheet and let the mandatory training play to the end.
People don’t stay because they’re stupid or lazy — they stay because it’s convenient, or because they have a niche skill they can only use if they move 300 miles from friends and family.
The real fools are the ones who call everyone else thick for staying, yet admit they left years ago — — so why are you still so hung up on checking how DXC’s doing every day?
@b6 "ence why we're quitting in our droves." what a joke , most are staying and complaining , hopefing this dead cow get better. It won't
It’s not just DXC—the entire airline industry runs on a shoestring. There’s no real resilience in ground systems. When the machines fail, everything stops—belts, check-in, bookings, the lot.
We’ve been warning for years: build fault-tolerant, distributed microservices. But change costs money, and they won’t spend it. Instead, they slap a shiny front end on decades-old systems, creating fragile, poorly integrated solutions that inevitably break. Outsource it so you can distance yourself from the problem. But it's your business pal, not DXC's....
The back-end teams work miracles to keep it all alive. But the jobs market is shifting, and loyalty cuts both ways. When companies don’t care about staff or invest in doing things right, they get exactly what they’ve paid for: quick fixes, no resilience, no security. Wait for it to break—then scramble.
And the point here is - that it's DXC people calling out this could be better. But our clients and execs don't seem to want it. Can't keep fighting it. Hence why we're quitting in our droves.
@aq this basically says nothing other than DXC is a sh-t place to work. Don't get me wrong I understand where you're coming from but I'm hoping some one can chime in from a systems perspective.
It's UAs fault. It's there system. There business. Their decision to use an IT partner. To penny pinch or upgrades. They've failed to invest. Don't blame anyone but yourselves. It should have stayed or least gone back in-house years ago. IT is core to your digital business. It's too valuable to trust to people who have no financial incentive for it to work. Job pride doesn't exist when your this ground down by DXC. We don't care if it works or not. Our focus is some spreadsheet, and how to get out of this hole. That why it failed. Whoever is actually responsible its all down to years of cost cutting.