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To: Seldom_Blue who wrote (21440)	3/26/2000 5:54:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

The Legacy market is going away by its own definition. Don't hold the funeral yet! People have been predicting the death of the mainframe for years, but not only hasn't it happened, there isn't even a good start. I don't remember the percentage, but the claim is that a staggeringly high percentage of the world's corporate data is still on the mainframe, a percentage high enough to make you wonder what everyone else has been doing all this time. Big companies have a devil of a time getting rid of legacy applications because they are so huge and there is so much pressure for new applications, that there is little available to consider replacement, especially if it isn't really broken. This is the real potential for the right EAI tools since one can interface to the legacy apps, wrapping them in an API which is independent of the applications internals. This allows the new applications to move forward without concern, other than performance, for the clunkly legacy applications, and creates an environment where one can replace any one legacy application with a new one without the rest of the suite even knowing it happened. Not all EAI works this way, of course.

To: Seldom_Blue who wrote (21440)	3/26/2000 6:13:00 PM
From: Mathemagician	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

If you think the legacy market is going away, think again. This question was addressed in the later report. Here is a more recent development. biz.yahoo.com "NEW YORK, March 23 (Reuters) - IBM (NYSE:IBM - news) said on Thursday its mainframe computers were purchased for the first time to support electronic markets in a wide range of industries, in a deal the world's top maker of computers said bodes well for its business in the fast-growing electronic commerce market. Commercequest, a privately held company that sets up online venues that enable multiple buyers and sellers to conduct business, said it bought two s390 mainframes from International Business Machines Corp. The initial five trading hubs that will use the mainframes are online procurement site ICG Commerce; AviEx, which exchanges airplane parts; chemicals traders e-Chemicals; plastics exchange PlasticsNet; and UIP, an online trader of insurance products. CommerceQuest and IBM said they planned to deliver 60 more such electronic marketplaces by the end of this year." M