I was informed in a Microsoft Training Class just a few months ago that the problem with banking is that most still run in Windows NT. Microsoft has a special team of developers that provide support for NT and the banks pay an inordinately large amount of money to have that support.<p>Anyone developing for NT?<p>Disclaimer: I have not researched this information, but assumed the instructor was not full of it.
I particularly enjoyed the quotation at the end of the article, from the guy who thinks that programmers "only cause trouble." I'm sure he'd be much happier with a room full of clerks doing the accounts, and transactions taking a few days.