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Information source: OS/2 Warp Vision - June, 1997

Original under:

http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/library/vision/save.html

page index:

(red) CIBC (Canadian

Imperial Bank of Commerce) (1)
(green)

Zurich Insurance Group (2)
(blue)

Bank of Montreal (3), (4), (5),

(6), (7)

[...]

MANAGED PCs

It is now

estimated, according to the Gartner Group, that upgrading and

maintaining each PC on a standard network costs from $10,000 to

$20,000 per year. IBM recently previewed a new software technology,

WorkSpace On-DemandTM, which demonstrates our direction in reducing

the cost of PC ownership, as well as addressing the range of emerging

Intel-based hardware environments, including "managed PC's"

and "thin clients." This technology has already helped

businesses like Zurich Insurance Group,

Bank of Montreal, and CIBC

to transition from a traditional client/server computing model to a

network computing environment optimized for 100% Pure JavaTM, the

Internet, and corporate intranets.

[...]

A STEP AHEAD WITH AN OS/2 WARP SOLUTION

Cost of ownership is a growing concern for any business with an

investment in personal computers. With the industry moving toward

network computing, new buzz words such as "zero-based

administration," "thin clients," or "no-cost

computing" abound. And terms like "centralized management"

are back in style.

Managing systems centrally never went out of style

at the Bank of Montreal. Their bank

branch IT solution embodies network computing capabilities already

present in OS/2 Warp. The workstation hard drives contain no user

data, no applications, not even the operating system--only a few

files necessary to maintain good performance.

Gartner Group "cost of ownership"

studies indicate situations where users maintain applications and

control the data on their workstations can require one support person

for every 40 to 50 users. In the branch environments, Bank

of Montreal is seeing a 250 to 1 user/support ratio.

Bank of Montreal has

chosen an OS/2 Warp solution for its mission critical applications.

IBM's latest network computing technology, WorkSpace On-Demand, could

be the next step for the bank as it continues to look at ways to

reduce costs.

"MANAGING CODE AND DATA CONSUMES A MAJOR PORTION OF PC

SUPPORT RESOURCES.IT ORGANIZATIONS CAN CONSIDERABLY LOWER COSTS BY

REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DATA AT ITS END POINTS."

Bill Peel Sr. Technical Specialist Bank

of Montreal June, 1997

[...]