Squabble over income downs TipidPC?

Those who have been PC enthusiasts at one time or another are likely to be a regular visitor at TipidPC.com. The site is undoubtedly the biggest online PC trading site in the Philippines. Only recently though, I have been informed that it has been having some rough times and went down for about a week due to alleged technical problems with the database.

There’s a rumor though of what really caused the extended downtime:

There’s allegedly been a squabble brewing lately between two giants on another site. This alleged fall out apparently precipitated during the last 48 hours.

The more technically gifted one, out of pressure from his partner, reportedly took the precious main database hostage ang fuxored the db schema of the backups. He has gone AWOL.

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Under pressure from advertisers, the powers that be had a boardroom meeting last night. Last I heard, the assembly concensus was that if the hostage isn’t turned over soon enough, they might consider emptying what’s left of the damaged database and building it anew. Which means everything might just go back to scratch. {source}

It may have some truth in it. If it’s just some technical glitch, I don’t see why it would last that long.

This story reminds me about the history of Manila Tonight (MTC) and MyGimmick (MyG). There used to be MTC only, handled by partners one of which was the brains behind the forum while the other was the webmaster. After the site became popular and was getting some form of regular income, the two fought over money only to end with one creating a new and competing site (MyG).

A very common situation with lots of business partners, both offline and online.