"Government department wiped out by IT upgrade disaster"

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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=2695

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has suffered what has been
described as the biggest computer crash in government history after a
software upgrade that is believed to have downloaded an incompatible
system
throughout the entire DWP network.  The government department lost 80
per
cent of its roughly 100,000 PCs following a "routine software upgrade",
a
DWP spokeswoman confirmed today.  The problem lasted all of yesterday
but
the "majority of our system is up and running now", she said.
Microsoft and
EDS run the DWP's network as part of a 2-billion pound IT contract.  The
situation had apparently been largely rectified by the next day.
   [Source: Government department wiped out by IT upgrade disaster;
   Another massive computer cock-up, this time at Work and Pensions.

   By Laura Rohde, IDG News Service, 26 Nov 2004; PGN-ed]


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