> Why is this important? Well for starters, 44 of the top 50 banks and 23 of the top 25 largest U.S. retailers still use mainframes, according to Google. I'd r

> Why is this important? Well for starters, 44 of the top 50 banks and 23 of the top 25 largest U.S. retailers still use mainframes, according to Google. I'd rather be interested which 6 top US banks already manage to run without mainframes. And if they can run their systems cheaper/more flexibly or are stuck with SAP/Oracle contracts that are as expensive and hard to change.