Originally Posted by
SeenItAll
I suspect that rather than being juvenile, BA's IT procedures are pretty advanced and very cognizant of the damage wrought by failures, with a lot of redundancy built in.
I'm going to hazard a guess here and say that you don't work in IT.
IT spending is bottom of the list as most management can't see the benefit of spending all that money on 1's and 0's. Until something like this happens.
They obviously had b*gger all redundancy as a 'power failure' at a single site managed to completely nuke their worldwide operations.