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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (166370)	6/14/2002 5:29:24 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Constantine, for such an old article, there's a lot of wizdom in there from Michael Fister. "We'd be naïve to think that the legacy transition will be over quickly. Mainframes have been with us for 25 years, and they're not going anywhere. People want to tightly control migrations from those platforms because they have millions of dollars and the critical elements of their business riding on them. It's more realistic to expect people to make changes as they do new things. E-business is exciting because people can launch into all kinds of new business models and applications. As they do so, it's a natural opportunity for them to think, "Hey, I want to move from the very expensive, narrow systems I was working with to those that are more mainstream and have more life to them." The opportunity to move from that "legacy" to more choice in platforms, operating systems, and applications is very exciting. We're working with the software industry to not only enable new applications, but also identify the best legacy ones for migration. And as with any microarchitecture, we want to give those apps some ability to run in a native mode for maximum performance. We don't have this inflated view that IA-64 will instantaneously replace Alpha, Power, or even IA-32. But the momentum from partners announcing new operating environments, applications, and computers is signaling the opportunity to more aggressively select best of breed in all three areas." This is not squirming at all. It's a very realistic way to answer the question, and it continues to apply, even 1 year and 9 months after the response was made. wbmw