A lot (but not all -- used to be all) ATM control systems run OS/2 because
the built-in facilities for interfacing with IBM S/3{7,9}0s is quite
good.  I wonder why they were threatening to buy AIX.  I would have been
threatening to buy P/390s or MPs with OS/390.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Laurent FAILLIE wrote:

>  --- Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> a =E9crit : >
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, NetBSD Bob wrote:
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> > > Oh, well, such is hi-tech biz....  Where is
> > Gatesware in all this?
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> > Probably somewhere in the shadows... Compaq would
> > probably love to drop
> > VMS as well, but cannot do so at the moment, so
> > instead they plan to
> > migrate OVMS to Itanium.
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> I had worked for DEC in '92, and we had some rumors
> about the end of VMS in favors of NT.
> But, our main clients are banks and the feedback from
> banks was so BAD : many of them tell they want to bye
> IBM's AIX computer if DEC remove VMS solutions. They
> simply want reliable computer and NT ...
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> It was rumors but confirmed by some friend of mine
> working in banks ...
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> Laurent
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