<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ccfefd85-16e5-4f88-80df-45ba1db3fa58/9A011DDE-D43E-448A-B18B-1EA3E22ABC8A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/how_did_dow_computer_systems_h.html" href="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/how_did_dow_computer_systems_h.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.oreillynet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/how_did_dow_computer_systems_h.html"> Wednesday February 28, 2007</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/how_did_dow_computer_systems_h.html">In the financial world, the big news today is the worldwide drop in stock prices, including the worst performance in the United States since the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. But there seems to be an interesting computer story too. During the tense afternoon in the U.S., Dow computers fell behind and failed to reflect the full extent of stock declines.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/how_did_dow_computer_systems_h.html"><P>When we hear more about the computer systems, it may provide lessons for emergency management in a number of areas, including local and national government responses to disasters. The incident shows that information systems are at their most strained–and in the hardest ways to anticipate–just at the times when the public asks the most from them, and needs information most urgently.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9A011DDE-D43E-448A-B18B-1EA3E22ABC8A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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