On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 04:58, Bob Evans wrote: > Well, from '96 to '99 I worked at a large bank in > charlotte, nc, that ran a "green screen" unix app with > 750-900 users, hooks into Carmax, 3 credit bureaus, > data entry in El Paso(actually into Mexico but dont > say I said that), and they hated it, too. Ran faster > than a beast, but they wan't a Wintel solution. > > They used it for dealer loans. Dealer loan is where > you get your car finaced at the dealership, as opposed > to a direct loan, where you go to your bank branch 1st > and cut a check. > > Anyway, this thing ran 24x7, with an average turn > around time for a loan application of under 5 minutes. > > Today they are in beta 13 of the Wintel solution. > Average time for a loan app: 45 minutes. That bank is > fast losing the dealer loan market because they > thought the green screens were ugly... > > And before you ask, yes, I said I could screen-scrape > the green screens to either a web app or windows, for > next to nothing, but they said thanks, no thanks, kept > me on for 6 months & a $10K stay bonus, and opted for > the modern solution. >
One thing that is apparent from the proliferation of Windows in this world: the world doesn't beat a path to your door because you *have* a better mouse trap; it beats a path to your door because they *believe* you have a better mouse trap. To paraphrase a good friend of mine, Appearance becomes their Reality. There is no reason that the windows app should take longer. Most of the processing should occur on the back-end systems. A few database lookups, some comparison's of values, and then the raw data should come spewing back to the Wintel box. Anybody can build a crappy database or lousy interconnects (especially if they put all their money into the front-end of the application). Jon -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
