[geeks] Oh my god...

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:35:48PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:21:31PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 12:10 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
> > >All the major banks use it.
> >   I have three responses to this, and I'm not sure which one to send, 
> > so I'll send them all:
> >   - Is that why my deposits keep getting lost...
> Either that or they get lost because of banks using insane systems that
> rely on a lot of paper work, despite all the computers.  My fiance works
> in a bank, and apparently they are fairly progressive for a bank, but
> they are years and year beyond where my credit union is.  My credit
> union has done its transactions online for as long as I can remeber,
> whereas my fiances bank lists the transaction on the computer, but the
> transaction doesn't actually happen until the paper forms get processed
> the next day.

That is a valid point, it seems that all the consumer banks suffer from
that particular brand of stupidity.  I, however, was talking about the
big investment banks and the like.

> >   - Every bank that I've seen the inside of uses IBM 
> > mainframes...which, as far as I'm aware, don't run VB.
> One local bank, I don't know what they use on the back end, but their
> client applications look suspicously like VB.

Yep.  IME, VB is actually quite a nice tool for making front-ends to real
systems.  Same applies to Java.  Plenty of trading floors use apps written
in-house in VB to talk to their back-end systems which run on real
computers.

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