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[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

LOST DATA AT STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL
When outside contractors failed to verify that data had been saved before
attempting to move two servers from the Stanford Business School to the
university's central computer system, 10 to 15 of the school's 200 faculty
and Ph.D. candidates lost their databases, research notes, and parts of
books or dissertations.  The dean of the school says, "This was a disaster.
Even though lots of people recovered their work, some people lost data
irretrievably."  (San Jose Mercury News 9 Apr 98)