The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) writes: > In my experience, Tandems are not "switches". They process card > traffic. I'm aware of one migration from mainframe to Tandem. > Here in Poland, vast majority of ATMs and POS's are non-mainframe. > Even no mainframe "behind the Tandem". > Only 3 banks are using mainframes at all. Was 4. The fourth one > decided to drop the mainframe due to costs. The project was succesful > - no entry for re-boot hill. Oh, two big mainframe projects I'm aware > exceeded planned timeframe and budget. > Only one ATM network is using mainframe. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#97 We're losing the battle http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#99 We're losing the battle http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#101 We're losing the battle http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#7 We're losing the battle in the 80s & 90s a lot of ATM stuff was done on Tandem machines with software (base24) from these guys http://www.aciworldwide.com/company/ quicky search on tandem, atm, base24 turns up stuff like this: July 19, 1999, Indian Public Banks Move Online Slowly http://asia.internet.com/news/article.php/650391 tandem wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers some issues may be attributed to (after being acquired by HP, tandem line) being moved to Itanium base ... which has had its own issues. more recently ACI has been quite active with IBM (besides over the yrs providing products on some number of other platforms) http://www.aciworldwide.com/partners/sapartners.aspx?pid=118 old related post in this n.g. from last year (also reply to one of your posts): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#6 ATMs as mentioned in the old post, we marketed our ha/cmp product against them in some number of markets http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
