Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Vienna Insurance Provider Saves Millions by Migrating from Mainframes

Vienna District Health Insurance Provider Saves Millions by Migrating Applications from Mainframe

NEWBURY, England & ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2007--Micro Focus(R) (LSE:MCRO.L), a leader in enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announced that Vienna, Austria, health insurance provider Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse (WGKK) has successfully switched over from its Unisys 2200 mainframe to IBM System p hardware running AIX, saving WGKK many millions of euros in IT costs. In addition, ongoing annual IT operating costs have been dramatically reduced and are now just 5 percent of the operating costs of the mainframe.

Read the full press release from here @ Insurance News Net

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