There are other business related inaccuracies in the article as well. The article indicates that they process hundreds of millions of Credit Card transactions a day. Having previously worked at a large credit card processor in the US, it can be said with certainty that the S. Korean credit card volumes are orders of magnitude smaller than US volumes. The US volumes are in the range of 100 to 200 million per day depending on the time of the year.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]>wrote: > That's not the correct headline. > > BC Card isn't moving *back* to mainframes. In its 27+ year history, BC Card > has never had a mainframe -- nothing in the System z lineage, anyway. They > are now replacing HP and Sun UNIX servers, and Oracle databases, with (a > presumably small number of) IBM mainframes. They are new in almost every > possible mainframe-related way: new z/OS customer, new CICS Transaction > Server for z/OS customer, new WebSphere Application Server for z/OS > customer, new System z10 customer, new mainframe customer. > > There are some things in the article I disagree with, but there's one fact > in particular that is most certainly not correct. The article says this: > > "Sources at IBM say that this is the first Unix-to-mainframe application > migration in nearly a decade." > > I hate to disagree with "sources at IBM," but no, that's just factually > incorrect. I have personal knowledge of another such customer (in Japan) > who migrated their applications from distributed UNIX to z/OS with Parallel > Sysplex, and they never had a mainframe before. Quite possibly their entire > industry has never had a mainframe before, partly explaining why they're > not public. I suspect there are others. > > Which is not to say that this isn't significant news from Korea. It is, > very. > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
