[Am-info] Bank chief blasts Microsoft and IT industry

[John J. Urbaniak]

Mike Stephen wrote:

> Remember the Commonwealth Bank was involved about 5 years ago in a switch to NT from OS/2.
> The switch was promised and attempted by Microsoft advisors.  After a few hundred million dollars,
> all the Microsoft cronies were fired, and IBM was hired to fix the mess that the Microsoft people had
> left.
> IBM replaced all the NT servers with OS/2 again and got the company back up.  This resulted in a
> quarterly loss for that bank when all other banks were recording record profits.

What?  Going from NT back to OS/2 resulted in a loss?  I don't understand what you mean by this.

Or did you mean that the NT adventure resulted in a loss?

John