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To: Andrew J McSherry who wrote (65)	12/31/1996 3:37:00 PM
From: Sleeperz	of 158

>Saying that purchasing ORACLE and 4GL tools can solve all the Y2K >problems is really a bit naive. -------------- Of course it all depends on the application. If its a standard financial accounting application, ORCL has those modules. If its a totally custom app then probably its best to stick with the old code. Orcl has SW that runs on Mainframes too. It doesn't have to be a C/S conversion. ---------- >Many companies have legacy systems which have little or no >documentation or little or no source code. They have been developed >and patched over several years by several different people. Some >systems will also have been developed by third party companies which >may not even be in business. ------------ Well if the Legacy sytems has no DOCs and no SRC Code then you might as well start from scratch. Sounds like some old sawmill kept together with baling wire and when the Electrician leaves the whole plant goes down since no one knows what is what. Now wo't it be nice to have a new modern sawmill with upto date computer control system instead of the old legacy control Relays. -------------- >Companies which have mission critical systems will probably spend >just as much(probably more) money in data conversion from a >proprietory DBMS to ORACLE or INFORMIX. Also, many of these systems, >due to the cost of upgrading hardware and network infrastructures, do >not lend themselves to a multi-tier client-server paradigm - thus >generating new front-ends and using 4GLs is simply not an option. Any >IT Professional will tell you that there is an awful lot of >substandard software (spaghetti) code out there and it may not be >possible to rewrite the code without having to go through formal >requirements gathering and analysis phases. This can be expensive and >costly. ------------------- Well is this company planning on using this spagetti code for the next thosand years. Someday it will have to be done why not now. They don't have to rewrite the code following what the OLD programmers wrote. Why not start from scratch using available standard modules and all new HW. They would have had to buy new HW anyways. World Class Companies like Alcan have gone the ORCL route and implemented all new HW and SW and added new capabilites too. I didn't say the conversion had to be to a multi server C/S. cl

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