http://www.networkworld.com/article/2916081/network-management/big-iron-and-banking-why-all-major-banks-rely-on-mainframes-and-are-growing-their-use-of-mainframes.html
One item I noted in this article: "I recently learned about a bank in Japan that has been using a mainframe since the 1970's without a single second of downtime. Its architecture allows for full software and hardware upgrades without an outage." Thanks, Mark T. Regan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN