Any Financial Institution out there?

Hi there netters, I work for a financial institution (Colonial Mutual Life Assurance/Colonial Mutual Investment Management) in Melbourne, Aust and am interested in contacting other financial institutions that use relational databases. By financial intuitions, I mean banks, insurance companies and investment houses. There are really two reasons for this posting, the 1st is a request by my company to enquire about what other financial institutions are using in their company. The second reason, which is what I am interested in is to contact any investment houses out there that use RDBMS. We are in the process of moving away from network databases to relational and would like to know what everyone else is doing, the problem they have had, the software they are using etc. The following are some of the questions I have. I would appreciate any response you may have emailed directly to me. If you are not a financial institutions but know of other that use RDBMS, that information would be useful. 1. What is your company's name and where are you based? 2. What line of business is your company in? 3. How big are they? 4. Where are you based? 5. How big is you information technology division and the area you are in? 6. What type of RDBMS do you use? 7. What type of applications are they used for? 8. Are they written in-house or third-party? 9. How long have your company been using the RDBMS? 10. What are you hardware configuration: - networking architecture and protocol used - number of Workstations/PC's - type of servers/mainframes and Op/sys 11. Do you have gateways between different Op/systems and databases? 12. Experiences with the RDBMS you use? I hope I am not asking too many questions? If you feel that any of the questions are confidential, please do not answer them. regards tony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____ ________ / ____ |Tony Jambu, Database Administrator /_ __ /_ __ / |Colonial Mutual Life Australia. (ACN 004021809) /(_)/ ((_/ \\_/(///(/_)/_( |EMAIL: TJambu@cmutual.com.au