[Info-vax] Off-Topic: UNISYS problems

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/9/22 21:30, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> (UNISYS has been mentioned here a few times)
> 
> https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2022/11/08/unisys-stock-plummets-internal-investigation.html
> 

Interesting, but confusing.

How does a $.59 loss on a $5.15 share value workout to be
a "50% plunge"?  Guess I don;t really understand the stock
market.  Good thing I don't play there nor does my retirement
depend on it.  :-)

On another note, having been a UNNIVAC Applications and System
programmer in another life I have followed them (technical side,
not business side) for several decades.  While they have done
an amazing job of moving forward while maintaining backwards
compatibility I am surprised they have lasted as long as they
have.  Most of what they do is business programming in high
level languages like COBOL and Fortran and their original
strength dates back to the days when mainframes were the only
real powerful machines.  Today, I doubt there is much still
running on OS2200 that could not be handled easily on PC
architecture server boxes.  At a great reduction of cost.
Also, because of how much COBOL and Fortran is involved I
expect migration would not be overly difficult or risky.
And yet, there they are.

Would make an excellent target for VMS to take a lot of
that business away. Unless, of course, VMS would end out
costing as much as, if  not more than, the current UNISYS
cost.

And, yes, I know personally of currently running large UNISYS
systems that date back to Univac 1100/EXEC8 days.  Some of
them, after 40 years, still have my name or initials in the
comments. :-)

bill