1.   Midland Bank, another Micro Control user, is only now migrating away from mainframe applications.

2.   This includes customers downsizing their mainframe applications to a distributed Unix or client-server environment.

3.   But compared with mainframe applications, those prices and installation times are very competitive with mainframe applications, and the payoff can be dramatic.

4.   Getting one software program to talk to another has been tricky ever since a programmer created the second mainframe application and tried to connect it to the first.