What’s Really Driving Application Modernization?
By Stephen Swoyer05/08/2008 To listen to some industry analysts tell it, organizations are rushing to embrace SOA, Web services, and other application integration or application modernization technologies. That, however, is probably too optimistic by half. In fact, some organizations don’t so much rush as get dragged — often kicking and screaming — into modernization projects. In many shops, IT veterans say, application modernization is a matter of last resort, embraced only when the pain of licensing, maintenance, support, or platform costs becomes too much to bear. In other enterprises, IT shops are modernizing older applications (or swapping them out entirely) to mitigate risks — such as the pending retirement of programmers, operators, or support personnel associated with their operation.
