[kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07, Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com> wrote:

>
> Betty,
>
> On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
> > Thanks Solomon
> >
> > Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the
> > connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany
> > temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the
> > inconvenience
> >
>
> <rant>
>
> From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily
> interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that
> the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany.
>
> I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the
> case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an
> efficient service for a local service that depends on international
> connectivity.
>
> </rant>
>
> Michuki.
>
>
I was going to rant about this too, but I decided not to, because something
hit my mind: Since I have a Safaricom WiMax link which I use only for Int'l
VoIP, them having to rely on DB servers in Germany is a good thing for me
(perhaps) - that they will ensure my Int'l link never goes down:-)))

The negative side to what Betty said is simply something about Kenya's IT
infrastructure. That Safaricom does NOT have faith in having their servers
hosted locally, since they don't trust having their servers in Kenya. Now,
that is another minus for Safaricom!

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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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Damn!!
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