OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:35 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

> > What kind of database software do the ones you've worked with use?
> 
> The "IMS" above might have been a clue.  I don't know if it's true, but the 
> argument from big-iron users has always been that relational databases run 
> too slowly to do concurrent updates and retrievals on the scale that you are 
> doubtless dealing with if you're using an IBM mainframe.

IMS is an old (30 plus years) hierarchical database system.  If banks
are still using it, I suspect it is because of all the transactional
Cobol code sitting in front of it.  The cost of converting all that code
is probably deemed too high.  After all it it works, why change it? 
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