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

[Mike Stephen]

When the commonwealth Bank took 4 years, together with Microsoft and Anderson, they lost 
hundreds of millions of dollars, and failed to get the network up.  IBM was then hired to put the 
pieces back together.  They got them back up and running... with OS/2.  Since then, I would guess 
that they have probably got NT running, but after 1996 I have not heard what the solution.  So after 
4 years and hundreds of millions lost, they went back to OS/2 to get the bank running.....


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:11:36 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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>Mike Stephen wrote:
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>> 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.
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>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?
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>John
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