CentreLink is a 26,000 MIP customer
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/303153/centrelink_ups_it_reform_keeps_model_204_legacy_/?pp=2.
Phew, that's going to be a big blow for big blue when they move off.
On 27/09/2015 2:48 PM, Anthony Thompson wrote:
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.
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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 ...
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