A little throughout a year ago, Los...

A little throughout a year ago, Los Angeles began developing its specifications for a modern fleet management system.

It was at this point that the nimble department bumped into a hard reality: The city's Information connected views (IS) infrastructure could not support client/server computing.

Not, that is, without significant added cost for upgrading hardware and software platforms as well as the city's telecommunications network.

The result: The city's company of ships is now running on a strange state-of-the-art host-centric fleet management arrangement But there are no repentances because the mainframe solution confronts all its operational and functional urgencys just as well as the client/server a whole

Plus, it chews neatly into the existing IS infrastructure.

Lo Angeles's flotilla department was at a technical crossroads. It's aging, homegrown nimble management system was barely able to retain up with a fleet that had grown to more than