On 30/09/2015 10:20 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 03:37:23 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote:
CentreLink is a 26,000 MIP customer
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/303153/centrelink_ups_it_reform_keeps_model_204_legacy_/?pp=2.
Phew, that's going to be a big blow for big blue when they move off.
Nope.
At that time (2009) Centrelink might (might ?) have been. It is now an
amalgamation of Medibank and sundry others. Bigger and badder by large.
At the link I see the phrase "self-service PCs in offices." How does that work?
What OS? My understanding is that Windows is a one-man dog.
Today, in 2015, I think it means technologies like mobile where you can
check-in at the airport using your phone. I book movie tickets on my
phone and rock up at the cinema and just scan straight from my phone
and pick up the tickets. No need for data input by a customer or
operator. They want to do the same with welfare and medicare. There's
already an app where you can scan a doctors bill and just ping it in
without having to fill out forms
or use a PC web based application which are also starting to look old
hat. Everybody has mobile devices in their pockets and CIOs don't see
mainframes as the platform of choice for the next generation systems
which will ultimately
reduce the cost of IT. Especially when IBM have got them over a barrel
and can charge what they like because there is no competition.
My employer is eliminating our SunRay thin clients which had been the core of
our drop-in workstations. Our Windows PC disks are encrypted only a single
authorized user can start one; this makes a stolen drive useless. Much (not
all) work product data resides on individual PCs with network drive backup.
Are there PC solutions for drop-in workstations? Many modern needs aren't
met by generic 3270 emulators.
-- gil
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