Some banks were trying to change off of Tandem, but a major banking software vendor bought an "up and coming" Linux on System z solution and essentially killed it in favor of their own, dated technology.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J R Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: We're losing the battle This is not unique to Tandem. It's a function of "front end switches". It's just that Tandem is the traditional platform of choice for this function. It's hard to convince banks to change from a long standing solution. However, new installations are adopting other alternatives. As I said before, it's not to cover for unavailability of the IBM platform. Rather, it's to stand-in for the unavailability of the "back end application", regardless of what platform it's running on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
