[thepossum]

Dear all

Apologies since I don't know all the rules for appropriate topics at a Water Cooler. I've also been out of web, database, software for a very long time, and haven't had a chat round a Water Cooler for a while. What is the latest popular reality TV show other than the news.

However I sincerely hope all the real time critical systems we rely on in this world are not so affected by asynchronous issues as many web sites and web information systems around at the moment

At the most benign level maybe someone gets a duplicate message. Next stage up maybe something gets ordered twice and has to be refunded or sent back. Next level, maybe wrong person gets the wrong thing, or we act on old information But after that, what next. Oh sorry we operated on the wrong person. Or sorry the wrong procedure. Etc

Regards P