<div dir="ltr">Wow!  If they are truly running on an 11/780 then switching to a virtual environment would be a no-brainer.  Not only would performance and electrical usage improve but it would be easier to maintain hardware wise.  Licensing of the software would be the big issue.  Plus the fact that it processes $130 million in payroll would give me a bit of pause to make sure it was running on secure hardware.  Still an interesting article!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Clem Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clemc@ccc.com" target="_blank">clemc@ccc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hawaii seems to still be running a 780 with Cobol application to process its state payroll:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/11/civil-bytes-our-new-governor-should-upgrade-states-sorry-technology/" target="_blank">http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/11/civil-bytes-our-new-governor-should-upgrade-states-sorry-technology/</a></font><br></div></div>
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