For Application Development Professionals

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	January 10, 2006 Got Legacy? Four Fates Await Your Applications Several Trends Converge To Help You Rationalize Intelligently, Prepare For SOA by Phil Murphy with Mike Gilpin, Lindsey Hogan

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Executive Summary

Organizations have wasted untold millions on purported one-size-fits-all solutions to their legacy application issues: dump the mainframe; rip and replace; move it all to Unix; and, most recently, outsource it all. As they adopted these solutions, IT managers slashed application maintenance budgets to dangerous levels to fund these efforts. Despite those efforts, today, most organizations are no closer to a permanent solution than when COBOL was the predominant programming language and indexed file access methods were considered revolutionary technology. Several recent trends indicate that IT organizations are ready for a break with the past. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a viable "future state" target, and IT managers are now admitting that they will keep some legacy applications much longer. In combination, these two factors are driving vendors to offer complementary tools and services to enable application reuse, and they are heightening interest in application portfolio management (APM) tools to create application metrics and visibility into IT activity. The stars have finally aligned to enable knowledge-based application rationalization and modernization.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• How Applications Became Legacy
• The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly In IT Today
• Inventory, Then Analyze
• Evaluate Applications
• Choose A Fate
• What's Different In 2006?

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Get Moving On A New Approach To Maintenance

WHAT IT MEANS

• Vendors And End Users Will Benefit
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