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I'd say inertia is a large factor but also risk aversion. Bank systems have to be very available (or they attract large fines) and so there's a tendency to sti
by raesene6 10y ago
I'd say inertia is a large factor but also risk aversion. Bank systems have to be very available (or they attract large fines) and so there's a tendency to stick with things that are proven to be robust even when they have other problems.
The other major problem I've seen is that most banks don't think of themselves as technology companies, and treat IT as an overhead to be minimized, which is absolutely the wrong approach.
This tends to lead to things that save money in the short term (e.g. outsourcing deals) but could well cost money in the longer term, as they make replacing legacy systems harder.
- riskable 10y agoThis is nonsense. Not every system in banks needs to be highly available. That's just silly. Like the print server on the 3rd floor needs an active standby! Haha. No, just like any organization banks have "critical" systems and "everything else." Docker is mostly being "sold" as a means to replace and improve the non-critical stuff. Like that internal web app everyone uses to look up <whatever>. Or the system that generates daily reports on <whatever>. Just like most organizations, banks have a few critical systems and everything else is less so (to varying degrees).
- raesene6 10y agoyes and the topic of discussion in this thread is ..... core banking systems.... which do have to be highly available. If the topic had been bank print servers and I had made my comment yours may have made more sense My comment didn't say "banks print servers need to be highly available" anywhere.. at all..