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Post #28,524
by Mike
2/15/02 1:45:13 PM
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New Dyed in the wool :-)
Shops I worked when on Tandem:
Equity & Law in England.
Data Architects.
Logica (they merged/bought Data Architects).

I worked on large back-office funds transfer solution
called "BESS" (Bank Electronic Support System).
This basically acts as a big "hub" for a bank's electronic
connections to the Federal Reserve, S.W.I.F.T, CHIPS, Telex and so on.
They had other products too but most of them stemmed either directly
or indirectly from BESS.
I wrote mostly software running in Tandem's Pathway environment
(requesters, servers, TMF, Enscribe, Guardian C30).

Because of the complexity of our product, we were popular with Tandem
as beta sites for their new 0Ses. I found a nasty bug in the first D-series
release (remember the low-pin/high pin release?). That's my claim to fame. God I need a life :-)

I left Tandem platforms in 1994 to code C++ on NT.
I'm now writing web apps on Weblogic using J2EE (EJBs, servlets, jsps).
I still miss Tandem even today.

What about you? Which shops?
-- William Shatner's Trousers --
Post #28,534
by bconnors
2/15/02 3:20:58 PM
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New My joints
At the time, the world's largest futures commodity exchange in downtown Chicago; spent over a dozen years there supporting the trading floor and end-of-day reports. Then I went to a company that sold a wireless order management system to utility companies for 2 years, doing Tandem and VB 3. They got bought out by a Canadian competitor, so I went to Texas to work for "Hell" computers for almost 4 years, doing Tandem and VB (and NOT getting the training in other software packages as promised).

Now I'm over in Houston at a small custom print shop doing VB and SQL Server 7 stored procedures. Nice place, but I'm not getting any exposure to things besides VB that I know I need to learn.

Starting to get calls from Tandem recruiters. I tell them that if they have anything back in Chicago, call me back.

BConnors
"Prepare for metamorphosis. Ready, Kafka?"
     Microsoft's complicated approach to reliability - (ben_tilly) - (9) - Feb. 14, 2002, 05:47:38 AM EST
         Cough choke - (wharris2) - Feb. 14, 2002, 08:01:28 AM EST
         Oh please... - (Yendor) - Feb. 14, 2002, 09:20:43 AM EST
         When I see the words "fault tolerant" - (bconnors) - (6) - Feb. 14, 2002, 09:57:08 AM EST
             Oh yes. I concur. - (Mike) - (5) - Feb. 14, 2002, 03:00:19 PM EST
                 I never knew you were a Tandem dude! - (bconnors) - (3) - Feb. 14, 2002, 10:57:09 PM EST
                     FAA relies heavily on them also -NT - (boxley) - Feb. 15, 2002, 09:03:15 AM EST
                     Dyed in the wool :-) - (Mike) - (1) - Feb. 15, 2002, 01:45:13 PM EST
                         My joints - (bconnors) - Feb. 15, 2002, 03:20:58 PM EST
                 Unfortunately... - (static) - Feb. 16, 2002, 02:31:11 AM EST

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