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Friday, November 30, 2007

ZDNet's Top 10 IT disasters of all time

This is my Friday morning laughing dose of the week.
  1. Faulty Soviet early warning system nearly causes WWIII (1983)
  2. The AT&T network collapse (1990)
  3. The explosion of the Ariane 5 (1996)
  4. Airbus A380 suffers from incompatible software issues (2006)
  5. Mars Climate Observer metric problem (1998)
  6. EDS and the Child Support Agency (2004)
  7. The two-digit year-2000 problem (1999/2000)
  8. When the laptops exploded (2006)
  9. Siemens and the passport system (1999)
  10. LA Airport flights grounded (2007)
For more details check it out on ZDNet's Top 10 IT disasters of all time

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