I was thinking of the process we are going through right now. There are some applications that we will be dropping. The conversion is a convenient way to drop printed bill, credit card processing, etc.
It's much harder politically to drop an application in the legacy system. But some applications just aren't cost effective (or maybe secure or private or whatever) and should be dropped. Other processes should be re-designed, but none of the customers want to pay for such a redesign - the old process works OK. In the old days, we could go to a new database or package and accomplish most of this without getting rid of our old computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
