Funny that he believes there was a "denial-of-service" attack. I suppose its possible, but more likely it was just the sudden surge of users trying to get at the new OS2008 and repositories. It was Nokia who denied us service...

Glad to hear the mea culpa, but in other organizations, such negligence would be cause for immediate removal. Don't think Mr. Jobs would tolerate such f*ups. Of course, in the US, we have FEMA, so we're familiar with this sort of thing. Doing a heck of a job, Brownie.

EDIT: Look, I don't want anyone to lose their job. It already seems like a tiny team anyway! Certainly glad the problem was figured out, fixed, and hopefully won't happen again. As others have mentioned, releasing new OS and then jetting off to holiday without making sure things were going smoothly wasn't a brilliant plan. Lessons learned...