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Open Letter to the Federal Reserve
Susan Eustis provides some sage advice to the U.S. Federal Reserve — and alerts U.S. taxpayers:
As a senior industry analyst and member of the press covering the IT industry, it has come to my attention that the IT department at the Federal Reserve is interested in throwing out the mainframe and replacing all that functionality with distributed computer systems. As far as I know, there’s no new workload going on the mainframe at the Federal Reserve. This is, I believe, a mistake.
My concern is that because the reliability and the security of the System z are superior to distributed systems, the economy is being put in jeopardy by this decision....
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| by Timothy Sipples | June 27, 2008 Permalink |
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