At the recent ISOTech conference New Orleans, I chaired a panelof experts that asked, and tried to answer, an increasinglycritical question for insurers: "Mainframes: Keep Them or DumpThem?"
For years, it seems, many of us in the tech community have beentelling insurers to retire the big iron (their crusty old mainframecomputers) and move to some form of server-based computing.
On the surface, such a move makes sense, in terms of betterinteraction with the Web and Web applications, as well as cuttingdown the number of data "silos" that make dealing with the hugeamounts of data in insurance systems such a difficultundertaking.
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