It isn't just banks and financial institutions. American automobile companies (Ford, Chrysler, GM) among others.
I interviewed back in the mid-1980's at several large entertainment companies (Columbia Pictures and at least one TV-related organization) that used mainframes for administrative accounting work back then. Not sure if any of them do today. US State governments and local governments for larger cities (e.g., NYC). Of course, those all qualify as OLD, as you said, not from the last 30 years. Someone with privileges to see the whole SHARE membership roster could probably answer your question better than I can. IMHO part of what is vanishing mainframe clients is IBM's failure several decades back to continue to support universities with discounted hardware and software. Lack of mainframe availability at university level has translated into current managements with no exposure and no desire to learn the advantages (TCO, security, etc.) of mainframes. Not the whole reason, but a significant contributor. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 4:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Fwd: Tech News 1964 W dniu 2016-04-07 o 21:37, Mike Schwab pisze: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/07/ibm_s_360_50_anniversary/ > > 96 of the biggest 100 banks in the world still run IBM mainframes. Keywords: still, largest. "Stil" means defensive, marketshare loss. "Largest" means only the largest institutions really need mainframe. Questions: What about those remaining 4 biggest banks? What computers do they use? Since those 4 bank in first 100 can live without mainframe, what about banks from third or fourth hundred? Mainframe are usually used by big and OLD companies. "Old" is important here - it's IT legacy, it's cost of migration, etc. What big and new (30 years old or less) companies use mainframe? Google? Facebook? Netflix? > If there is job security in the world, that is it. Not for me. Raincode. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
