Interest grows in "open" computer systems. (banks and data processing) (Cover Story)

From: ABA Banking Journal | Date: December 1, 1990| Author: Friis, M. William | Copyright information

A trend to watch, open systems could reduce banks' data processing costs by permitting applications from different systems to interact more efficiently

There's a new concept sweeping through the computer and data communications worlds. It's called "open systems" and slowly, but surely, it's making its presence felt in the world of bank data processing.

As usual with emerging technologies, the open system concept has spawned a considerable amount of new jargon...

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