Re: "unless the Govt plan to resurrect ICL"
"There is a corner of Fujitsu that is still to all intents and purpose the rump ICL, keeping the now-virtualised mainframes spinning and supporting half a century's worth of legacy application software."
There is indeed, I did a stint up in Stevenage about 10 years ago at the old ICL building when Fujitsu still owned it, now even Fujitsu have vacated the building.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
