OT: Colorado Rockies computer's crash which OS?

[Robin Laing]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 8:43 PM -0600 10/22/07, Ski Dawg wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:11 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:32 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>>>> Which OS do the rockies run?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-rockies-seriestickets&prov=ap&type=lgns
>>>>> Makes me wonder and others as well,
>>> The story does have the name of the company though (Paciolan) and
>>> if you search for their job openings you'll find them recruiting
>>> on college campuses for folks with Oracle, DB2, java, and Linux
>>> experience, so it seems likely that Linux is the underlying
>>> system.
>> Maybe they have decided to move to Linux from their current platform ;)
>>
>> Anyway, there has been an update that says the site was down (in fact
>> they claim their entire North American operations where impacted)
>> because of an attack from an unknown source(s).
> 
> Ever wonder how all the tickets for some event sell out in less than a
> minutes?  Ticket resellers hire others to do distributed attacks on ticket
> seller sites, so that all the tickets are sold to the resellers.  Doing
> that just a bit too hard could crash most anything, and result in no
> tickets sold.  So it may have been an attack, or it may have just been
> ticket reseller fraud that had the effect of an attack.  There's big money
> involved, with ticket markups of 100x, so there may have been more than the
> usual number of ticket reseller hired attacks this time.
> 
> They need big servers to sell all the tickets as fast as the ticket
> resellers are trying to buy them, but those big servers don't serve their
> intended customers at all, because they have to pay huge markups to the
> ticket resellers to get tickets they should have been able to buy for a
> modest markup.


Close to what I heard.  Software accessing ticket selling sites for 
scalpers.  Maybe the software went ballistic this time.
  http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/10/16/ticketmaster-rmg.html?ref=rss

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Robin Laing