I'm curious to know how a major e-commerce business - that boasts having 1.5 million clients - could reasonably allow their website to be vulnerable to ANYTHING - from acrimony to electrical outages to viruses - or ANYTHING that would cause their servers / website - and everything connected to it - to totally fail for over 4 hours on what could have been a very busy Saturday afternoon in the USA - which I believe is probably their #1 market.
<This post edited by Auctiva Moderator to remove link and comments in violation of forum policy>
Nah. The programmer doesn't necessarily run the servers.
Besides, after the movie "Office Space", I think that most "smart" high tech companies know how it goes with copycat crimes & put precautions in place against that sort sort of thing.
If not that, then what?...
Last year, Ali Baba, a Chinese company, bought Auctiva.
http://www.marketwatch.com/inv.../stock/albcf/profile
This year, Yahoo bought Ali Baba (see link above) but reports on that linked page indicate that's not a union made in heaven ...
... and while Yahoo - a U.S. company - may own Ali-Baba - the Chinese Company that owns Auctiva - the fact remains that China owns more of us than we do them - China is the largest foreign holder of US securities.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12605163
... NOT a good place to be right now ... considering the U.S. debt stalemate in Washington... as you probably already know
... and China has said stated their position on that ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...finance-2328692.html
you probably already know that, too
(OBVIOUSLY I'M FINDING OTHER WAYS TO OCCUPY MY MIND/ TIME SINCE I CAN'T ACCESS AUCTIVA ...)
SOOOOO ... How about this: ... maybe the Chinese Ali Baba pulled the plug on Auctiva ... just to show us that they can be "dangerously irresponsible" too..
OK - I'm kidding ... obviously, it would be more productive for me to quit typing & start drinking ... KIDDING! . I'm done. over & out.