An opinion piece by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal's CIO Journal has the following paragraph.
"The shake-up of banking should be great for customers, according to the Economist. The benefits of technological change are likely to be vast. Costs should tumble as branches are shut, creaking mainframe systems retired and bureaucracy culled. Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a visiting lecturer at MIT which has the following brief biography. "After a 37-year career with IBM, Wladawsky-Berger retired from the company in May of 2007. At IBM, his primary focus was on innovation and technical strategy. He was responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT industry and for organizing appropriate activities in and outside IBM in order to capitalize on them. Wladawsky-Berger led a number of IBMs companywide initiatives, including the Internet and e-business, supercomputing, Linux, and Grid computing. He continues to consult for IBM on major new market strategies like Cloud Computing and Smart Planet. In March of 2008, Wladawsky-Berger joined Citigroup as a strategic advisor, helping with innovation and technology initiatives across the company. He is helping to formulate Citigroup initiatives related to the future of global banking, including mobile banking, Internet-based financial services, and financial systems modeling and analysis." Given his background it is troubling for those of us who support the z series. The following URL is for the article. https://emailshare.cmail19.com/t/n/d-l-25bb70929cfa11e9a60d64415353e21b-l-d-r-l/ Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
