Like I told the pilots in my Raincheck class today. AAS didn't fail because it couldn't do what IBM said it would do. It failed because it made the workload go UP for the controllers and didn't make the job easier. There were some other issues too, but what the heck <G>.
I'm glad that we have finally abandoned that approach and are now working on other items to add to our DSR consoles. Hopefully if we can keep some steady funding coming into the FAA we will see some rather nice additions and improvements to our systems even before I retire <G>...