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Article: Vienna District Health Insurance Provider Saves Millions by Migrating Applications from Mainframe.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- April 3, 2007
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NEWBURY, England & ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Micro Focus[R] (LSE:MCRO.L), a leader in enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announces that Vienna, Austria, health insurance provider Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse (WGKK) has successfully switched over from its Unisys 2200 mainframe to IBM System p hardware running AIX, saving WGKK many millions of euros in IT costs. In addition, ongoing annual IT operating costs have been dramatically reduced and are now just 5 percent of the operating costs of the mainframe.
This switchover was possible after all core Unisys COBOL applications were converted to Micro Focus COBOL as part of a comprehensive ...