It's amazing! This is a first victory for the IBM mainframe since downsizing to distributed platform tended to be an epidemic in South Korea for more than a decade.
There were no clear reasons to give up a mainframe for them although they were victimizing an IBM mainframe cost driven. To be honest political atmosphere was pervasive over the RFP selection and IBM was loosing a battle against open system invasion because of; More political connections for the open system distributors - CEOs or there lobbyists are parachuted, and linked to the government IBM didn't agree to have an unfair game or not getting used - may be.... I know how it went, and worked.... I worked as a senior systems programming team lead for the one of BC members (XX BANK), and selected RFP from the political pressure. I hope BC card case changes the IT direction with no more political game, may be it could be already changed. If they already did, just disregard a criticism from old comrade, and Congrat them! Have no clue I haven't been there a decade either... -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM Press Release: New Mainframe Customer in Korea No, many of the System z Solution Edition offerings are 100% z/OS-based. All but two -- I think that's correct -- are substantially z/OS-based. Was there anything IBM said that might cause you to assume otherwise about the Solution Edition offerings? If so, maybe that's something I could look into. I've previously highlighted in this forum that they are heavily/substantially z/OS-based (if that's of concern and/or curiosity). Although I don't speak for IBM, I will confirm the press release details, that BC Card has selected very nice z/OS-based infrastructure, including (as the press release says) CICS Transaction Server. DB2 and WebSphere Application Server are also on z/OS, as are several other software products. I'm not even sure if there is any Linux-based content at this point in time, though there could be. z/OS and Linux on System z complement each other quite well and certainly don't particularly compete with one another. BC Card was founded in 1982. They have never had a mainframe before -- not anything of MVS heritage anyway. It is the largest credit card company in Korea. My congratulations (and thanks) to BC Card. We look forward to many mutually beneficial years working together. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html The information transmitted is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential, proprietary and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, distribution or other use of or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy this message and any copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
