10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
3:30 p.m.
On Jun 10, 2009, at 23:08, Eric Smith wrote:
I've heard stories about banks that have migrated
their transaction
processing from IBM mainframes to Windows, but they may just be
stories.
Every now and then, I run into one of those morons that plans to
"streamline" or "optimise" IT operations by standardising on a single
platform...
Heh.
"Show me a Windows machine that can run your monthly prolongation
batch run and finish /before/ the next weekend, and I might stop
calling you a moron for proposing things like that, moron. Until such
time, I think we'll keep the high-volume databases on real iron and
keep calling you a moron."
.tsooJ
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