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
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
Labels: aix, austria, cobol, costs, europe, finance, insurance, migration, unisys
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Burroughs, Unisys Reminisced...
Old memories: Burroughs Corporation
By Mauricio Freitas, @ Geek Zone, New Zealand
A brief reminiscence of Unisys by a former employee (In 1986 Burroughs bought Sperry Corporation and created Unisys. )
As Mauricio correctly mentions, Unisys was such a huge force in the industry that is really surprising very few people in today's computer industry seem to know anything about it. From what I recall, there are quite a few large companies in the travel and hospitality industry ( for which I was a software salesman for a couple of years in Europe!) that are still running on Unisys systems...
Will be useful to keep a watch on Unisys...
By Mauricio Freitas, @ Geek Zone, New Zealand
A brief reminiscence of Unisys by a former employee (In 1986 Burroughs bought Sperry Corporation and created Unisys. )
As Mauricio correctly mentions, Unisys was such a huge force in the industry that is really surprising very few people in today's computer industry seem to know anything about it. From what I recall, there are quite a few large companies in the travel and hospitality industry ( for which I was a software salesman for a couple of years in Europe!) that are still running on Unisys systems...
Will be useful to keep a watch on Unisys...
Labels: burroughs, history, sperry, unisys
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