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Comment Re:Microsoft does the same thing (Score 1) 23

Banking IT here. We rely on those frames, and while we are forced to constantly evaluate solutions that don't involve them, it simply doesn't make sense to take the core transaction processing away from the frames. Speed, reliability, capacity on demand when we need it, IBM still has great support.

Sure, the cost of potentially migrating businsss code away from COBOL and FORTRAN figures into the equation. the reverse engineering, re-design, testing, bla bla bla... would be expensive. For what? Platforms that may or may not be able to handle volume at crunch time. No thanks.

Comment Re:IRS promised what??? (Score 1) 39

>>I can't imagine this being a serious threat that they would actually be able to create their own free filing online system.

Maybe they don't have to. perhaps an option is to change the model. So that an Intuit, or others can bid to become that service /for/ the IRS.

Maybe be like a Post Office where besides being the basic tax filing service, they'd sell value-adds of some type. Similar to what they do today, but in a cleaner less deceptively worded way.

Comment Re:Not just no. (Score 1) 263

Stating what is obvious to 99% of the community here. OSX is based on a BSD. The OS is a customized UNIX with the GUI and Mac stuff built on top of it.**

The new UNIX subsystem in Win10 is just that, a subsystem. Still being fleshed out, btw.

**side note: look at what Apple did on top of that BSD. I think that's an example of what a LINUX could be with enough attention and development time.

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