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摘要

Some community bankers find their tech partners way ahead of them, while others fret that their vendors don't move fast enough How much of the software running in your bank is using that little-heard-of, but too-often-relied-on operating system: "Stealth DOS"? There's really no such program, of course. But there are programs peddled to banks that are nothing more than gussied-up DOS programs married to an interface that looks current. "These vendors build layers on top of their old, original MS-DOS code to make it appear that it's Windows software," says community banker Jan Clark, "but when you get right down to it, it's still a DOS program and there are limitations. These companies are just not willing to go back to the beginning." This is one species of complaint about the vendor community. There are others. Take the unhappy experience of Tom Leetch, Peoples Federal Savings Bank, a $286.2 million, Boston.