EL Dorado county property system runs on in-house coded M204 application written 30 years ago. They are trying to get rid of it.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: > Model 204: > The Bank of Nova Scotia (under VM) > Becker's > The Canadian Depository and Clearing Corporation > > To name but 3. > > - > -teD > - > Original Message > From: Anthony Thompson > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 02:48 > To: [email protected] > Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > Subject: Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press. > > The big one in that is the Australian Federal Government's CentreLink. > They are attempting to replace a mainframe-based solution with a SAP > solution. > > The then Federal Treasurer, the esteemed Mr. Joe Hocking (now out on his > arse after we got a new Prime Minister), claimed it was because the > applications were running on old IBM hardware. Simply untrue, they have > z196's (not the latest and greatest), but the applications ran on the Model > 204 database. I think the only other organization on the planet that still > runs Model 204 applications is the US Department of Defence. > > I'm pretty sure that $1.5 billion is going to blow out to a crapload more > than that. Here, in my 'state' government, we attempted to replace a > government asset control suite of mainframe applications with SAP. At a > projected cost of $5 million. $70 million of tax payers money and five > years later, they gave up and went back to the mainframe. > > Allegorically, I've heard that 70% of major mainframe applications > conversions to little-box SAP solutions fail (a Gartner statistic?). > > Ant. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Shane Ginnane > Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 7:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press. > > > http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-top-five-green-screen-systems-that-run-australia-409614 > > Some large (by Aussie standards) mainframe customers that may be no more > in the foreseeable future. > > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Walter Davies Supervising IT Analyst [email protected] (530) 621-5420 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
