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Another "boeing still uses floppy disk" article, but this one reads like an ad for the company mentioned.

They answers their own question:

Emergency response units talked by two-way radio and sent each other text messages with photos of paper maps, said Kenneth Dueker, the director of Palo Alto’s office of emergency services. “Here we are right in the middle of Silicon Valley,” Dueker said. “Why am I using paper and pencil and a two-way radio when I should be using geospatial tools? It’s very 1920s, frankly.”

and few paragraphs later:

"Glitches in software and outdated maps have been reported in the warning systems used to alert people in the path of the flames during several major fires in the last year."

[SQueeeeeL]

Yeah, but after you give this startup 50 million dollars, I'm sure their system will have no glitches!