On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > well rural banks have such small revenue that they could not afford > even a unix-based core banking system such as Temenos, Ambit, or > iFlex..
there you go again... you always love to under estimate and blunder... you dont know the owners of these rural banks... for your information... i was a technical consultant with two local banks.. one bank have 5 branches (iloilo, antique, capiz, bacolod and victorias) in region 6... the owner of this local bank is a secret chinese billionaire... aside from banking, he is into real estates owning lots of subdivisions and a cemetery, exclusive franchise of mitsubishi automobile (and isuzu before) in that region, with its own holdings and others... he can even afford to buy your oracle enterprise products with a snap... the rule of the game for him... economics 101.. why buy an expensive car if an ordinary and cheaper car already serve its purpose? i learn a lot from him with his business model - practicality... the original setup 11 years ago was a clipper + novell operating system... clipper program was bought in manila... the creator of this program is a company popular to rural banks community... novell was licensed version 4.11.. his in house technical guy went to hongkong and that is where i came in as a consultant... the problem they were facing was that novell 4.11 partition was only limited to 2GB... i told him you can upgrade that to a higher novell version 5.x... but he dont want to spend money anymore as it is already overkill for this kind of a setup... he asked if there is another alternative for that? and i said yes... that is where i introduced to him freebsd and samba which is totally free... i choose freebsd over linux because ufs is much reliable than ext2... believe it or not.. that bank's branches are still running using freebsd 4.7 and samba (forgot the version of samba) as a file server without a single glitch on the software level as of now... of course on the hardware level.. the mean time between failure of that hard disk has been reached out but it is under the raid 0+1 configuration.. the second bank is using clipper too... the owner was complaining to me that processing their daily reports took 5 hours to finish and the advice from the software company was to uprade the hardware... upon looking at it... the problem was not the hardware but the program was not fully utilizing the 16mb ram they had.. upon activating the himem... their daily reports went to 30 minutes to finish... > that wasn't what i had in mind... but your orignal challenged to this list who wants to deposit your money in a bank using postgres or mysql database as their core banking system? the short answer is - who cares? even if they used spread sheets.. who cares? as long as i have my passbook and earn interests.. who cares? and mind you.. the owner of that bank has lots of chinese depositors where each depositor deposits in a million pesos range.... > besides we shouldn't hold up rural banks as examples... it's that sort > of shoddy management that resulted in the Legacy scandal. there you go again.. another irrelavant topic... even if they go bankcrupt.. their database is still there... bankcruptcy/scandal of a small or big bank has nothing to do whatever database they used... but your money is.... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
