R.Skorupka@[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
