OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Thu Jun 11 16:41:02 UTC 2009


Derek Broughton wrote:
ase!
>  
> Well, I'm quite familiar with some banks, and it's MS at the front-end (not 
> out of choice - the bank I worked for was die-hard OS/2) and IBM (still) on 
> the mainframe.  It's been a few years now, but afaik, it's still CICS, IMS 
> and MVS (or whatever they're calling it these days), but with a lot of Linux 
> VMs thrown in on the mainframe.  I stopped working for them more than a 
> decade ago, but my wife was there until much more recently, and we still see 
> the same people we worked with.  Nothing much changes...  Frankly, I can't 
> imagine anything running MS software with the power for the size of Canadian 
> banks.

I was going to say, Dotan must not be referring to same (canadian) banks
I've  dealt with.




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