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Commonwealth Bank of Australia -- they were on mainframes, but spent a few hundred million dollars to get off. One of the other big Australian banks (Westpac)
by solresol 7y ago
Commonwealth Bank of Australia -- they were on mainframes, but spent a few hundred million dollars to get off.
One of the other big Australian banks (Westpac) has an "exit IBM" project as well, but it isn't complete yet.
- nabla9 7y agoI googled it. Apparently they moved their home loan systems etc. from "windows-based mainframe" to UNIX. What is windows-based mainframe? (HP Superdome??) They also moved into SAP analytics. There is no information anywhere saying that they moved their critical banking systems and transaction processing.
- rightbyte 7y agoGoing from IBM to SAP seems like no less lock in?
- dagw 7y agoBut only on the software side. Dozens of companies will compete to sell you hardware solutions to run your SAP stuff on.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoSuSE Linux on Lenovo, Dell, HP, whatever
- hapless 7y agoUnisys. Unisys always had a smaller mainframe share than IBM, and they stopped making new chips sometime in the 2000s. For at least ten years the fastest Unisys mainframes have been very big (proprietary) x86 machines running Windows with a Unisys mainframe emulator.
- rbanffy 7y agoI worked for Unisys in 2002 or so and I always thought it was funny to see a mainframe able to run Pinball... For some time I defined a "serious computer" as something that didn't have ports for keyboard and monitor. Having said that, the pre-x86 A series were pretty cool. And ran the most user hostile OS ever created, to the point its very name was used for Tron's villain.