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Why the Mainframe?... Why NOT the Mainframe?<br />
Our Customers agree – there’s nothing like a Mainframe<br />
Dundee City Council<br />
Hannaford Brothers<br />
“95% of the Fortune 500 companies continue to use mainframes, and about<br />
2/3 of all business transactions for U.S. retail banks run on them.”<br />
Zürich | 26. Oktober 2004<br />
From distributed to the mainframe<br />
Based on a five year period, the council realized that the cost savings associated with<br />
an IBM mainframe were considerable and by far the best option available.<br />
Centralizing workload from the distributed to the mainframe<br />
"It's easier to manage the mainframe than a bunch of Windows servers. We have a<br />
smaller staff running the mainframe and those functions run 80 percent of our business. We<br />
used to be fairly distributed, but the difficulty of managing thousands of distributed servers<br />
was just a nightmare. In the past five years we've made an effort to make everything we<br />
can centralized." Bill Homa, CIO, Hannaford Brothers<br />
First National Bank of Omaha<br />
On the mainframe from the beginning<br />
“If you look at the business world, look at what’s happened in the past 30 years, and look<br />
where its going in the next 30 years, what you're always going to see is that the<br />
mainframe is the most reliable platform.” Ken Kucera, First National Bank of Omaha<br />
Hardware Today: “Mainframes are Here to Stay” ServerWatch.com 2/06<br />
Silvio Sasso's Corner, GSE z/OS<br />
Expertforum CH #64, 9.-10.5.2006,<br />
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