[bob1029]

I feel like this only impacted the larger banks. I've heard absolutely no explosion noises coming from smaller institutions. The effect of regulations and their enforcement is felt differently across the spectrum.

There is something to be said for a diverse banking industry when it comes to this kind of problem. Also, this event is a powerful argument for keeping the core systems on unusual mainframe architectures. I think building a bank core on windows would be a really bad choice, but some vendors have already done this.