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Moving Off the Mainframe Offers Cost-Effective Means of Managing IT System for Atlantic Blue Cross Care

Overview Atlantic Blue Cross Care selected a mainframe re-hosting strategy and chose Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing (Sun MTP) software to move its essential legacy applications from the mainframe to an open systems environment, creating a sophisticated and practical IT system to take the company into the next century. While Atlantic Blue Cross Care spent $6 million on hardware and software for the migration, after the payback period ended, they are experiencing $3 million in annual savings over the outsourced mainframe.

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Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	March 2004	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes, Transaction Processing

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