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	October 28, 2009 Modernization Decisions: Should Client Leave Adabas When It Leaves The Mainframe Platform? by Phil Murphy with Mike Gilpin, David D'Silva	Average: 5  (2 ratings)

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Executive Summary

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)?

Keywords

• cost reduction
• shared services
• database
• DBMS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Should A Platform Migration Also Include Adabas Replacement?
• Moving
• Beyond Scoring: Factor The Vendor Relationship Into Your Migration Decision
• The Net Result For The Agency Was A Counterintuitive Decision

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