Mainframe migration case studies

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Chapter 3: Mainframe Migration Considerations

Mainframe migration case studies

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  • NYSE undertakes IBM mainframe migration to Unix and Linux

    14 May 2007

    Article -  By moving from a 1,600 MIPS mainframe to distributed systems, the stock exchange is cutting transaction costs in half.

  • Moving 600 developers off the mainframe

    Tip -  Micro Focus eased an army of in house COBOL programmers off of the mainframe and onto Windows while maintaining the legacy APS language at Blue Cross Blue Shield South Carolina. The company is also in the process of refining its SOA vision.

  • Publisher aims to save a million moving off mainframe

    14 Mar 2006

    Article -  NYC publisher, Simon & Schuster, expects to save $1M a year on hardware and licensing fees by migrating off the mainframe to Unisys' Intel-based ES7000.

  • Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

    06 Sep 2006

    Article -  Samsung Life Insurance moved 7,000 MIPS of core business transactions from an IBM mainframe to two HP Superdome servers. Samsung expects to break even on the project in 18 months, with a cost savings of $10 million annually by 2010.

  • Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles moves off mainframe, encounters glitches

    03 Aug 2006

    Article -  The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles decided to move off its mainframe to a Unisys ES7000 high-end server and consolidate three customer databases into one. In the process, it managed to live up to the stereotype of long wait times and customer...

  • IBM mainframe to be replaced by Oracle and Unix for ERP app

    06 Nov 2007

    Article -  Arrow Electronics is moving off its internally developed mainframe enterprise resource planning apps for Oracle and swapping out an IBM mainframe for AIX running on System p.