On 30 Sep 2015 03:07:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On 30/09/2015 4:37 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:31:13 +0800, David Crayford <[email protected]> >> 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. >> We as a community can not afford to lose this puppy. It was Amdahls >> trumpeted catch (along with quaint-arse) and look what happened to them. >> If this goes, there is *NO* future for z/OS in Aus - simple as that. > >I had no idea they were so huge! An IT budget of $400m six years ago so >add another $100m to that by now. I predict a disaster trying to migrate >off a system of that scale. Government IT projects always fail >and that's a big, big project. The talk is of a requirement for new >systems that can handle self-service but why can't they just integrate? >The UK government has blown billions of pounds on over ambitious IT projects >for the NHS that were doomed from the start. The aussie government >should take note! The only winners in government IT projects are vendors. > >WA is a bit of a basket case wrt z/OS. When I first rocked up in 1998 >the company I work for also had a FM wing which looked after about 15 >mainframe customers, mainly government. They're all gone >now. WA police, Main Roads, ICWA (who re-platformed from a small BC z9 >to a single blade server >http://www.itnews.com.au/news/wa-insurance-commission-decommissions-mainframe-322780). > >The only >two z/OS sites left in Perth are Bankwest and HBF. I've been over east >several times to conferences in Melbourne/Sydney and conversations with >the customers (banks) are depressing. They all have mainframe >exit strategies. I was told that ANZ spent in the region of $300M trying >to get off and failed miserably. Everybody wants off!
Companies wanting off the mainframe is not new and If I were heading a major customer's IT department I might well be on the band wagon. The zaap and ziip processors to make new work cheap while still hosing me with high costs for my existing systems would be there for starters. The EBCDIIC ASCII problem is another issue. Where is the growth in compute power and new applications in your shops? Clark Morris > >> 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
