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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (166377)	6/14/2002 5:31:36 PM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

wbmw, you are correct. Unlike the views presented on this thread. Everyone seems to think that now that McKinley is here everyone is gonna trip over themselves to go get one ( or more ) to replace their dinosaur sun systems. C

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (166377)	6/14/2002 5:56:32 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Respond to of 186894

I find that article interesting, because today we are actually talking about software solutions that will make it unnecessary to move off the legacy systems. One of the compelling ideas around web services is that you can "encapsulate" applications or functions of applications services that are generically available to newer applications. There's a lot of hype around this and much of it will most certainly not pan out, but clearly the vision of being able to use existing mainframe applications as components of distributed network applications is very compelling from a cost and stablility perspective. The whole issue of web services and networked applications is an interesting one and I don't think many people on the hardware side have thought through all the implications. On the one hand it does tend to favor moving processing to multiple servers throughout the organization. On the other hand, it tends to discount the need for huge centralized servers, and makes it a lot easier to leave existing functionality alone rather than replacing it. Clearly a double-edged sword. mg