Re: Oracle: Naked King in database land?

Mark.Powell_at_eds.com (Mark D Powell) wrote:
> Numo, I have added a couple of comments for any interested parties on
> your observations. I cut the post down to save unnecessary text.
>
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au (Nuno Souto) wrote in message
> news:<73e20c6c.0304031600.6fefaf81_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Mark.Powell_at_eds.com (Mark D Powell) wrote in message
> > news:<2687bb95.0304030625.7652dfcc_at_posting.google.com>...
> >
> > >
> > > The next version of IMS will support access from JAVA based web
> > > applications so we will probably be running IMS a decade from now
> > > along side our Oracle (currently AIX) based applications. The more
> > > software technology advances the more work we do to hook it up to our
> > > oldest applications.
> >
> >
> > Some people never learn... :D
> >
>
> The problem is that in the short-term it is cheaper to connect the new
> with the old than to convert the old technology to modern technology.
> Unfortunately this usually results in high maintenance costs due in
> part to very difficult modification efforts. But management only
> looks at the short-term numbers.

Are even the long term numbers favorable for switching to new technology? Afterall, the long term is just the union of a bunch of short terms, and it's not like "new technology" will still be new by the time you get ported to it.

Xho

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