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President Vladimir Putin has already blamed UES Chief Executive Anatoly Chubais for the power cut which left much of the capital without power, saying management had neglected the company?s problems to concentrate on a restructuring plan.
And Anatoly Chubais said: Here it is not possible to be of two minds, RAO "UES Russia" and I, personally as management, are responsible for the accident. All of this is on our conscience, nobody is going to shift the responsibility, but the basic actions are now directed towards restoration of service and on blocking the development more failures. Would the CEO of your company be as forthright, even in today's post-Enron, post-Worldcom world? The technical roots of the failure have been blamed on equipment dating from 1958-1962 timeframe which wasn't kept repaired and up-to-date. This is reminiscent of the Comair systems failure http://www.cio.com/archive/050105/comair.html and the 9-11 problems with emergency responder preparedness and the Challenger O-ring failure and the Columbia foam incident. How many old and forgotten devices and systems are doing mission critical jobs in your network? --Michael Dillon