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There’s a reason why most mainframe systems today are called ‘legacy’. Distributed processing is now so in-built into our way of life that large number crunching mainframes are somewhat of an anachronism. Having said that, the retail financial services sector needs massive processing capability to deal with many millions of transactions per day.
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© 2008 Ross McGill
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McGill, R. (2008). Build. In: Technology Management in Financial Services. Palgrave Macmillan Finance and Capital Markets Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582361_9
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