>Probably badly phrased on my part: CMS-oriented applications is probably a better description. >The stuff works, it's tested, and rewriting it probably isn't cost-effective. Where do those >applications go? And how?
Some that work stay just chugging along. Those that need rewrites or big changes to keep up with the changing business climate (mergers, acquisitions, more online stuff, new finanical products, security, SOX) usually get tossed in favor of whatever they are putting the new apps on at the moment. Now, I should say that most of the things we have on CMS are not the core business stuff (the linux happily is though :) - mostly back office reporting, analysis, etc. z/OS, where the core business stuff does run, seems to just get flanked with stuff interfacing with it (preferably in an SOA kind of way) although I think they've seen their share of stuff leave too, but the flanking it stuff drives way more tranactions than a little old human teller ever could so it continues to grow crazily as well. I say give us stuff to cluster our VM systems to make managing multiples of them easier and Linux that can move from one to another. Also, improve the ability to use the heavy stuff like making disaster recover easier (GDPS/XRC?/global mirroring?), whatever the next big thing is. And keep up with whatever cool things VMWARE and those other virtualization things are doing. CMS for applications is pretty clearly a dead end, although I don't think anyone wants to admit that at IBM. Even our other vendors don't seem to be wanting to do new things for CMS (-- the biggie right here now that has our CMS apps people rethinking their platform yet again is Connect:Direct (aka NDM) and it's lack of anything new esp the Secure+ feature). Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation."
