Comments on: GSIS sues Questronix and IBM http://blog.benjarriola.com/2009/07/23/gsis-sues-questronix-and-ibm/ In the Life of Benj Arriola Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: philip http://blog.benjarriola.com/2009/07/23/gsis-sues-questronix-and-ibm/comment-page-1/#comment-43691 philip Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:41:14 +0000 http://blog.benjarriola.com/?p=537#comment-43691 it's like buying a new appliance at home..and you have to take care of it..gsis should have took care of it..implementing BEST IT PRACTICE..my god!..it's a government institution!..should have been aware of the COBIT, ITIL and Sarbanes-Oxley it’s like buying a new appliance at home..and you have to take care of it..gsis should have took care of it..implementing BEST IT PRACTICE..my god!..it’s a government institution!..should have been aware of the COBIT, ITIL and Sarbanes-Oxley

]]> By: heb http://blog.benjarriola.com/2009/07/23/gsis-sues-questronix-and-ibm/comment-page-1/#comment-42728 heb Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:41:08 +0000 http://blog.benjarriola.com/?p=537#comment-42728 Isnt it obvious that the goverment GSIS specifically is the one to blame? Poor IT department people i think there was no backup redundancy plan made on their system. If you know that your sytem is so critical then plan ahead its high availablity, we all know machines and softwares are not created perfect thats why you have to have a maintenance and support on the part of the vendor. GSIS just suddenly pops infomercials on TV and radios that its IBMs fault up till now suing 100M pesos wow thats a lot. Im not sure if their system is still up maybe its not that critical thats why they are still apologizing to members that are affected i hope their contrinutions are still intact, theres a buzz that this was planned to hide some of the members contributions that were lost Isnt it obvious that the goverment GSIS specifically is the one to blame? Poor IT department people i think there was no backup redundancy plan made on their system. If you know that your sytem is so critical then plan ahead its high availablity, we all know machines and softwares are not created perfect thats why you have to have a maintenance and support on the part of the vendor. GSIS just suddenly pops infomercials on TV and radios that its IBMs fault up till now suing 100M pesos wow thats a lot. Im not sure if their system is still up maybe its not that critical thats why they are still apologizing to members that are affected i hope their contrinutions are still intact, theres a buzz that this was planned to hide some of the members contributions that were lost

]]> By: rdc http://blog.benjarriola.com/2009/07/23/gsis-sues-questronix-and-ibm/comment-page-1/#comment-42534 rdc Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:28:08 +0000 http://blog.benjarriola.com/?p=537#comment-42534 Here's a trivia: GSIS is using DB2 SSS is using Oracle PAG-IBIG is using Ingres Philhealth is using Oracle Tourism is using MS SQL TESDA is using Oracle Why could this government agencies can't just use the same DB platform and share common knowledge? They could have avoided such problem they have now, maybe. IMO, it is solely the responsibility of the person in-charge in GSIS' EDP department to know the limitations of DB2, that includes reading DB2 documentation. The government is spending thousands of pesos for these people's training to keep these people one step ahead on their jobs but what happened state otherwise. Here’s a trivia:

GSIS is using DB2
SSS is using Oracle
PAG-IBIG is using Ingres
Philhealth is using Oracle
Tourism is using MS SQL
TESDA is using Oracle

Why could this government agencies can’t just use the same DB platform and share common knowledge? They could have avoided such problem they have now, maybe.

IMO, it is solely the responsibility of the person in-charge in GSIS’ EDP department to know the limitations of DB2, that includes reading DB2 documentation.

The government is spending thousands of pesos for these people’s training to keep these people one step ahead on their jobs but what happened state otherwise.

]]> By: Benj Arriola http://blog.benjarriola.com/2009/07/23/gsis-sues-questronix-and-ibm/comment-page-1/#comment-42228 Benj Arriola Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:15:04 +0000 http://blog.benjarriola.com/?p=537#comment-42228 Assuming your assumption is true Pong, and knowing how some government agencies might operate, if you made a big mistake in your work, you're screwed, and in an attempt to make you situation better, you start doing some <em>"blamestorming"</em> and start passing out the blame to someone else. Assuming your assumption is true Pong, and knowing how some government agencies might operate, if you made a big mistake in your work, you’re screwed, and in an attempt to make you situation better, you start doing some “blamestorming” and start passing out the blame to someone else.

]]> By: pong http://blog.benjarriola.com/2009/07/23/gsis-sues-questronix-and-ibm/comment-page-1/#comment-42223 pong Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:26:15 +0000 http://blog.benjarriola.com/?p=537#comment-42223 i just saw the GSIS ad against IBM on tv. quite shocked that it's gone that far. Just my 2 cents.i work for a local software company (an IBM partner). At first I was hesitant to use DB2 (i think our first try at it was at ver. 8)..It took me a while to really get into it but the longer you get yourself around DB2, the more you appreciate it especially when you're not a technical person (im no compsci or any IT related course graduate). some of our applications for the local market run on DB2..we do encounter problems with DB2 but all we had to do was report these to IBM -Technical Support..these guys (i think their technical support's in Malaysia) won't stop or give up until the problem reported has been resolved. and I think DB2 has a performance monitoring facility (health center) that allows you to check the status & capacity of the database. if i were gsis, id probably question the guys over at the IT Department. looks like they weren't paying attention to DB2. --just my 2 cents. i just saw the GSIS ad against IBM on tv. quite shocked that it’s gone that far. Just my 2 cents.i work for a local software company (an IBM partner). At first I was hesitant to use DB2 (i think our first try at it was at ver. 8)..It took me a while to really get into it but the longer you get yourself around DB2, the more you appreciate it especially when you’re not a technical person (im no compsci or any IT related course graduate). some of our applications for the local market run on DB2..we do encounter problems with DB2 but all we had to do was report these to IBM -Technical Support..these guys (i think their technical support’s in Malaysia) won’t stop or give up until the problem reported has been resolved. and I think DB2 has a performance monitoring facility (health center) that allows you to check the status & capacity of the database. if i were gsis, id probably question the guys over at the IT Department. looks like they weren’t paying attention to DB2. –just my 2 cents.

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