So we're having some weather in New England today and tomorrow, so Jet Blue (once burned) is cancelling flights pre-emptively, which is good - and waiving re-book fees, also good.

What's not good is that their servers seem to be melting - zero response when you try to get details a specific flight. Phone lines, fugghedaboutit!

So a quick google brings me to this article from Network World back in 2003.

A few choice quotes from JetBlue Airways CIO Jeff Cohen:

"So we have what were 64 servers reduced to three boxes. Think about how much less that is to administer and how much easier it is to look for the problem if something goes wrong," Cohen says.

"In the old days, people would say, 'Ah, a Microsoft environment. You really can't depend on them for enterprise applications; it's really only Office and the Windows thing'. . . . But Microsoft and JetBlue sort of grew up together into the enterprise business," Cohen says.

"JetBlue never had to deploy Unix. It never had to deploy AS/400s. It never had to put all of these other technologies out there, which obviously cost a lot of money to run," he says."

Boy, good thing they never had to deploy any systems which had to hold up under fire eh?

We'll see if I get to Flordia or not.

-Zeke