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Posted on 12/23/2013 5:27:55 PM PST by steve86
As Oracle Corp. programmers try to fix problems with its work on the state's health insurance website, Cover Oregon is bringing in outside experts to make sure the company isn't adding new bugs at the same time.
The exchange's interim director, Bruce Goldberg, said Monday he's hiring people with the skills to look at programming code as it is being written to ensure "it is done correctly and we don't have to continue to go back and fix bugs in the system."
Goldberg's statement turns up the heat on Oracle and provides perhaps the most direct acknowledgement yet that the exchange's questions about Oracle's work quality are ongoing, despite repeated new infusions of talent by the firm and promises to make things right.
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Oracle databases are a challenge to upgrade and maintain.
This whole snafu (Obamacare websites, corrections thereof) are screaming for a set of Dilbert books or reams of XKCD comics.
Hiring someone to look at the code is hardly useful unless you are doing extreme coding quickly.
Their major fixes right now now should be modest fixes of existing code and in depth testing before moving on to the next bug. No one should be writing brand new code except bug-fixes at this point unless the scrap the whole project and start over.
Though they really should just scrap it.
Oracle RDBMS has a huge market share. Used successfully in many places. I don’t know exactly what the issue is here, but it sounds like Oracle is being made to be the scapegoat.
As I understand it, the president can change requirements on a whim. That is a nightmare for a nation and those trying to write a system.
That is a true statement. But no one wants to pay for independent validation and verification. For a large project IV&V can act as an honest broker to the state, evaluating the design and coding and performing independent testing of the project. Yes, it costs money, but that money is usually well spent. And yes, the IV&V contractor may very well tell the state that what the software contractor is proposing is garbage or a disaster waiting to happen. The state needs to hear that. (And that is also one of the prime reasons no one wants to pay for an independent IV&V contractor...)
We need to lighten up on Oregon’s ACORN workers. There are actually no examples of insured receiving care under the OCare exchanges in any state, just people who filled out applications.
I found it pretty telling that the only other company bidding on this very lucrative contract dropped out. As you said, methinks it might have been the massive and unclear biz requirements. Pretty typical government initiative.
Several years ago I was involved in a state program regarding electronic vehicle identification. The state had a meeting so any problems could be aired. There were several, but the state had already rid themselves of the staff that was needed to fix them. The mind boggles.
Not true, many completed/paid enrollments, including my state. Obviously no medical "care" dispensed until at least Jan. 1st.
It wasn’t a DBMS problem. It is a project management, design, and execution problem. Shared responsibility as several of the articles I’ve posted point out but Oracle Corp. is not without considerable blame by any means.
It’s not about the database (although that could be a problem).
Oracle was the vendor hired to build the database. So they are responsible for the db and the software development project(s).
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