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

[John J. Urbaniak]

I can't help but wonder if this Australian Bank guy did it again.

I mean he's blasting Microsoft, not IBM.  So that seems to imply that they dumped OS/2 again and replaced
it with Windows Me or something.

If so, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."

John

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 was really
> hilarious was that Microsoft was touting the Commonwealth Bank as an example of how to replace
> existing OS/2 infrastructure with NT.  It was an embarrassing failure.
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:57:39 -0500, Gene Gaines wrote:
>
> >Courtesy of Dave Farber's IP elist
> >
> >Subject: Bank chief blasts Microsoft and IT industry
> >
> >Must read:
> >http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/28/biztech/biztech100.html
> >
> >This guy gets it!
> >
> >Gene Gaines
> >gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
> >Sterling, Virginia
> >
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> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:57:39 -0500, Gene Gaines wrote:
>
> >Courtesy of Dave Farber's IP elist
> >
> >Subject: Bank chief blasts Microsoft and IT industry
> >
> >Must read:
> >http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/28/biztech/biztech100.html
> >
> >This guy gets it!
> >
> >Gene Gaines
> >gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
> >Sterling, Virginia
> >
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