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Post Office
Could you get someone to write an article explaining what the problem was/is with the Horizon program used by the UK Post Office? The general difficulty must be with programs working in real time for large numbers of clients. I can think of at least five reasons why your answer may be ‘No’.
Dicky Clymo
Neil says… Is it really Linux or open source related? To be honest, I’d like to keep on the positive side of life even if it is – there are possibly Linux servers involved and open source systems, but I’m not sure we’re here to analyse every IT system failure. Having said that, I did read an amazing write-up of the UK Air Traffic Control failure in 2023 (https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail). It’s fascinating to discover the huge flaws just waiting to happen in large IT systems.