----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Post" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: EDS mainframe goes <elided>, crashes RBS cheque system
On 12/17/2009 at 9:25 AM, "McKown, John"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
From The Register (Vulture Central).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/17/eds_mainframe/
Two z10s crashed in the UK due to lack of microcode maintenance. The
first
one crashed. This caused a DR roll over to the second one, which then
also
crashed.
I've been expecting something like this for years, having seen first hand
all the cuts EDS made to the mainframe support organizations _before_
being acquired by HP. I'm actually surprised it took this long. I guess
the difference before was that we actually still had people working like
crazy to keep things running, and now there simply aren't any in some
locations.
After Ross Perot left, EDS went straight downhill. In 1990, EDS owned
outsourcing. By 2000 IGS had eaten EDS for breakfast and spit it out. Sad,
really, to watch a once-great company that invented the business become an
also-ran.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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