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Technically that would mostly work but IT leaders at banks and insurance companies would rather pay high premiums to IBM then stick their neck out endorsing any
by snorkel 7y ago
Technically that would mostly work but IT leaders at banks and insurance companies would rather pay high premiums to IBM then stick their neck out endorsing anything risky. Renegotiating with IBM is the safest career move at such places. Cloud is steadily edging out mainframes at banks but a lot of old guard IT leads are circling their wagons around old blue because learning how to do high resiliency on cloud is new and scary, but old blue is safe and well understood.
- owl57 7y agoUsing safe and well understood tech to handle my money sounds like a good thing.
- ska 7y agoIt's hard to understate the value of safe and well understood for core systems. After all it's not like a massive migration to a new technology stack has ever blown up in anyone's face, right? (</s> if not obvious)