26 Aug 1997
London Underground (LU) has managed to effect a #2m migration for a raft of key IT systems without paying a penny extra to its outsourcer, ICL.
The deal involves bringing in four Sequent servers to run maintenance, scheduling, payroll and personnel systems, which until last year ran on four old Bull, MDIS and Pyramid servers.
Timothy Lee, ICL account director for LU, said: ?The Unix systems were becoming unreliable, expensive to maintain and didn?t support the latest versions of database software.
?Dramatically improved efficiency, speed and reliability from the Sequent servers produced savings that allowed us to absorb the investment, so we haven?t had to charge LU any extra.?
The upgrade has also made LU?s systems year 2000 compliant.
ICL?s services division won an #8m-a-year contract to run most of LU?s IT systems two years ago. The first stage of the migration, Sabre, went went live last August.
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