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Applications professionals at a government agency had been operating a suite of custom Adabas applications for decades. The agency was facing mounting economic pressures, it was seeking avenues for cost reduction, and the large bill for the agency's shared-services computing environment was a tempting target. To this end, the agency decided to migrate these applications off the mainframe to a different platform where it expected to achieve lower costs. But it faced another decision as well: Should it also migrate from Adabas to a new database management system (DBMS)?

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