The big one in that is the Australian Federal Government's CentreLink. They are attempting to replace a mainframe-based solution with a SAP solution.
The then Federal Treasurer, the esteemed Mr. Joe Hocking (now out on his arse after we got a new Prime Minister), claimed it was because the applications were running on old IBM hardware. Simply untrue, they have z196's (not the latest and greatest), but the applications ran on the Model 204 database. I think the only other organization on the planet that still runs Model 204 applications is the US Department of Defence. I'm pretty sure that $1.5 billion is going to blow out to a crapload more than that. Here, in my 'state' government, we attempted to replace a government asset control suite of mainframe applications with SAP. At a projected cost of $5 million. $70 million of tax payers money and five years later, they gave up and went back to the mainframe. Allegorically, I've heard that 70% of major mainframe applications conversions to little-box SAP solutions fail (a Gartner statistic?). Ant. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 7:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press. http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-top-five-green-screen-systems-that-run-australia-409614 Some large (by Aussie standards) mainframe customers that may be no more in the foreseeable future. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
