On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 10:57, Bill McGonigle wrote:
...
> See, your local bank with 10,000 customers might be OK with keeping a
> meg of data online for you and sifting through it for what you want to
> see. That's ten gigs of reliable online storage - not too bad.
>
> Then your bank gets bough
Systems are a major part of the equation on 'Wall St.'. The systems are
immense, and viewed as a tool to control costs, and increase profits.
There are many influencers in the equation: employees, regulators,
customers, partners, competitors etc. If there was a positive
cost/benefit analysis
On Nov 24, 2004, at 07:28, Fred wrote:
If there resources are so limited that they have to worry about 20K or
30K downloads, they really should seriously consider upgrading their
computers
Ah, mergeritis.
See, your local bank with 10,000 customers might be OK with keeping a
meg of data online
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 07:37, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Fred wrote:
> > If there resources are so limited that they have to worry about 20K or
> > 30K downloads, they really should seriously consider upgrading their
> > computers
>
> LiveJournal.com
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Fred wrote:
> If there resources are so limited that they have to worry about 20K or
> 30K downloads, they really should seriously consider upgrading their
> computers
LiveJournal.com hosts four racks of hardware, including 7 different
database cluste
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:12, Tilly, Lawrence wrote:
> It could also be data access time. Not sure what software they're
> using, but while you're doing your search you're probably tying up web
> threads, worker threads in a JVM (assuming java-based application
> server), database connections and c
Benjamin Scott wrote:
Well, we've seen speculation on everything from corporate intertia to
blatant customer-control. I might suggest getting in touch with the
government agencies that regulate banks. They should be able to
tell you if it is a regulation, or something the bank dreamed up by
its
trying to use it and getting poor performance.
-L
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Well, we've seen speculation on everything from corporate intertia to
blatant customer-control. I might suggest getting in touch with the
government agencies that regulate banks. They should be able to tell you if
it is a regulation, or something the bank dreamed up by itself.
Some starting
Fred wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:17, Bill Mullen wrote:
I suspect that the real issue here is merely one of storage space; by
setting a fixed period for which they will make data available (last 90
days, last 3 statement periods, whatever), they can move enough
transactions out of the databa
I'm guessing this is the real reason...
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>Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:17:09 -0500
>From: Bill Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Years ago, before online banking existed, [...]
>We had the same policy then for the account
>history data that we made available to the tellers
>o
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:17, Bill Mullen wrote:
> I suspect that the real issue here is merely one of storage space; by
> setting a fixed period for which they will make data available (last 90
> days, last 3 statement periods, whatever), they can move enough
> transactions out of the database to
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:56, Fred wrote:
> So, maybe some of you have had some banking experience. Is there some
> sort of obscure Federal regulation or similar that stipulates that
> financial institutions can only allow a max of 90 days of data at a time
> to the customer? And why would their be
This is extremely off-topic, but had to ask this.
Just about everything financial I've done online, from stock trading to
banking, all have 90-day interval limits on how much data you can
download from your accounts at a time. And since I have need of
downloading several years' worth for some purp
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