Unemployment applications are fairly small structured text records requiring some rather simple logic to process. I believe a single server built on a most powe

Unemployment applications are fairly small structured text records requiring some rather simple logic to process. I believe a single server built on a most powerful x86 CPU available today running an MS SQL Server instance (or Postrges perhaps, but I don't have experience with it) is more than enough to process all the unemployment applications on the whole fereakin planet. Why do they insist on using an ancient mainframe? That sounds fun but bizarrely irrational.