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It's also not very clear what target environment to migrate to with costs in that ballpark and expectations for longevity comparable to mainframes. Java? Cloud
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
It's also not very clear what target environment to migrate to with costs in that ballpark and expectations for longevity comparable to mainframes. Java? Cloud (lol)? Web (lol)? Just blinks of an eye compared to what these are supposed to replace. And last decade's post-standards rush hasn't exactly helped either so POSIX etc might not help much.
- taylodl 6y agoYou're not wrong. Oracle is making a big play in the utility space and so they have a lot of solutions available that can be hosted on-prem or in their "cloud" - which really is somebody else's data center. Their solutions are all JEE based and run on WebLogic. What gives me pause for concern is the JEE/WebLogic platform is now as old as COBOL was in the 1980's when we were calling it "dead" and we're still looking at 5-7 years of development and migration time to get to the new system. What will we think of JEE/WebLogic in 2030? My biggest concern is they're going to spend all this money to get onto another soon-to-be-legacy platform that they're going to realize on day 1 they need to start planning on getting away from. This is why mainframes have been so "sticky."