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Re:The State Of Railway e-Ticketing In India by eli on Monday October 31, 2011 @10:05PM (#3180224)
Every day from 23:30 to 0:30 the server is down for maintenance. Seriously, every day? Their server needs maintenance every fucking day? Which technology are they using?

A mainframe that does batch processing at night.

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Re:The State Of Railway e-Ticketing In India by wulfric on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @05:54AM (#3181352)
They use OpenVMS on Alpha it seems. Look at this: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/brochures/indiarr/indiarr.... I don't think HP is winning any customers here.
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Re:The State Of Railway e-Ticketing In India by whacker on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @09:36PM (#3184983)
Its not down for maintenance. Its to prevent the system from being taken advantage of by Internet users and put the rest, which is the vast majority at a disadvantage.
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