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Moore's Law - the Failing Crutch

For a half century, Moore's Law has simplified the CIO's life. Were you pushing the limits of your batch cycle window because of insufficient computing cycles? Upgrade your hardware and everything will run faster. (I know there are plenty of other...

Published 11-19-2009 7:22 PM by MKSmith101

Filed under: modernization, single thread, Moore's Law, batch window, concurrency

Woolsey and Swanson

Hi. My name is Steve Woods and I work in HP Enterprise Services Application Modernization. I’ll be posting on topics that involve how we use some fairly innovative approaches to legacy transformation. In particular, I’ll discuss our Visual...

Published 11-02-2009 3:31 PM by woodsps56

Filed under: modernization, transformation, legacy, asymmetrical, source code, inferential statistics, decompostion, measurement, COBOL

The Petri Dish of Innovation

Welcome from Oracle OpenWorld 2009! This is your Applications Modernization booth monkey, reporting in. I got to hear Ann Livermore's keynote on Monday, which had a heavy modernization component. She talked about applications modernization as a key...

Published 10-13-2009 6:08 AM by MKSmith101

Filed under: modernization, Oracle World

It Isn't Easy Being Green

I know I'm probably the millionth person to use that line in the context of data center modernization. But who doesn’t love Kermit? A copy of Newsweek showed up this week with a cover story providing an environmental ranking of America's...

Published 10-02-2009 8:11 PM by MKSmith101

Filed under: modernization, enterprise infrastructure, green IT

What Could Be More Modern Than You Tube?

HP has produced an extremely entertaining video advertising Steve Wood's Visual Intelligence tools ( short version , long version ). The surgeon who just wants to "patch the patient up" and go golfing is spot on. If you have been trying...

Published 09-24-2009 12:56 AM by MKSmith101

Filed under: Visual Intelligence

OMG Meeting / Application Driven Modernization

I attended the OMG meeting in San Antonio last week and thought I would provide some background and an update on the OMG modernization standards progress. The Application Modernization Task Force was originally chartered by the OMG in June 2003 to develop...

Published 09-21-2009 12:57 AM by MKSmith101

Experience Modernization at Oracle OpenWorld 2009!

This year at the Oracle OpenWorld conference, HP will have a booth focused on modernization and how it can help your business. If you are attending, be sure to stop by and meet the bloggers of this "Talk to the Modernization Expert" blog. Opportunities...

Published 09-08-2009 2:35 PM by MKSmith101

Filed under: Oracle World, Oracle

Why Modernization is an Enterprise Scale Activity

Modernization can be approached on an application by application basis and it frequently is. This is sub-optimal, but understandable. Individual applications frequently betray their inadequacies in a direct fashion - users complain, maintenance issues...

Published 09-01-2009 6:26 PM by MKSmith101

Filed under: modernization, enterprise infrastructure

Introduction to the 'Talk to the Modernization Experts' Blog

Welcome. My name is Michael Smith, Lead Technologist for Application Modernization in the EDS Office of the CTO. Along with my collaborators, I will be posting regularly on topics related to the modernization of legacy systems, from individual applications...

Published 08-25-2009 7:17 PM by MKSmith101

Modernization to COTS - Why are you writing a reporting application instead of using one?

The older a legacy application is the more likely that at the time it was built developers needed to write their own solutions in ways that we would find inconceivable today. More years ago than I would like to admit, I wrote an application for a professor...

Published 08-25-2009 4:57 PM by MKSmith101

Filed under: COTS, modernization

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