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To: Boplicity who wrote (21468)	3/26/2000 9:20:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

Are you assuming that current application in future releases will not be written so as to be web ready? The new applications aren't the legacy applications! What percentage of really new mainframes do you think get genuinely new applications? Remember that a huge percentage of these legacy applications aren't even packages where one might expect a new release to bring web-enabling with it. Many, many are in-house on-offs which are likely to need major re-writes to even think about being web-ready on their own. Even if they started off as packages, many are so customized by now that a new release is a very difficult if not impossible option. If it was that easy, people would just upgrade their OS, get the latest release, and skip all this L2i or EAI pain.