‘The Grid’

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Cellular/1659.html

Vodacom is planning a mobile social network service, simply called ‘The Grid’, merging MySpace, Facebook and MXit with added location based advantages.

 

[bobby.quinne]

Wth

I'm glad to see the cocaine is still on offer and Vodacom. I suppose it will run on IBM Websphere portal. Delivery date 7 years from now?

How they plan to take on more entrenched and frankly more tech savy people of Silicon Valley is quite beyond me.

 

[antowan]

It can either work or fail. I think they will have to seriously deprioritise Facebook packets on their network for this to work though...

 

[bobby.quinne]

It can either work or fail. I think they will have to seriously deprioritise Facebook packets on their network for this to work though...

I'm sure they will employ that too, but I have seen first hand some of their code for certain systems. My 2 favourites WTF's from them:

1: Timestamp koos = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
2: Was transaction management code :

ResultSet res = xxxx;

if(res instanceof OracleXXX)
{
xxxx
}
else if(res instanceof MysqlXXX)
{
xxxx
}

Most amusing

 

[sabagamma]

I'm sure they will employ that too, but I have seen first hand some of their code for certain systems. My 2 favourites WTF's from them:

1: Timestamp koos = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
2: Was transaction management code :

ResultSet res = xxxx;

if(res instanceof OracleXXX)
{
xxxx
}
else if(res instanceof MysqlXXX)
{
xxxx
}

Most amusing

You must be mistaken - where is the "instance of DB2XXX"?

 

[bobby.quinne]

You must be mistaken - where is the "instance of DB2XXX"?

Those are the only 2 I remembered off hand. @ the time, the oddiest thing was there was no informix support which is what they were running on. 4K plus tables and only 16 relations!