This article is just copy-pasted (stolen) from this blog entry, which also contains more of the original posting:
https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/bahn-administrator-fuer-windows...
Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin
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#12After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...
> After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. Well, it's cheaper than state run. And that comes at a cost.
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#13A lone position, or do they have a Workgroup?
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#14After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...
Are there any trains that runs on k8s?
Nope, they're all running on Rails.
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#15After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...
> After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. Well, it's cheaper than state run. And that comes at a cost.
It's still state-run, and 90% of the reason why Deutsche Bahn AG is in such a sorry state is the German government. Want to see privatization done right? Look no further than Germany's southern neighbour.
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#16After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...
Are there any trains that runs on k8s?
Hi, I was deeply involved in DBs Vendo project which completely replaced/renewed most of it's sales / customer-facing related backends and we were using Open Shift.
5/6 years ago... Everything could have changed again by now.
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#18After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...
It is a good recommendation to follow the "if it works don't touch it" motto, but it is also true that they have time and resources (you don't need that much!) to port this to a modern platform and perform all the QA activities that you need to be 99% sure everything works as expected. Through one of my companies we were/are involved in many of these efforts (e.g. application virtualization) and the use of legacy sof…
The problem with modern platforms is that they remove many constraints that kept complexity at bay. Combined with a large bureaucratic organization that is state owned and financed, Parkinson's law is going to hit very hard.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. Well, it's cheaper than state run. And that comes at a cost.
It's still state-run, and 90% of the reason why Deutsche Bahn AG is in such a sorry state is the German government. Want to see privatization done right? Look no further than Germany's southern neighbour.
SBB isn't privatized. It's 100% state owned.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. Well, it's cheaper than state run. And that comes at a cost.
It's still state-run, and 90% of the reason why Deutsche Bahn AG is in such a sorry state is the German government. Want to see privatization done right? Look no further than Germany's southern neighbour.
It's state-owned (the federal government is the majority shareholder) but it's not really state-run as far as I understand.
It has a lot of autonomy and is responsible for its own failures in my opinion.