Re: System Conversion - An Overview

.... They tried to replace one subsystem with 80% vanilla
SAP and 20% ABAP, but the vanilla SAP could not do even 60%. All of this
just to say they no longer have COBOL and now have the new and improved and
20% to 30% slower state of the art Java. In one lunch room they have a huge
chart of system development processes and paperwork deliverables. If you
live in the USA then sorry, it it your tax dollars at work :-(

Charles,
the trend is definitely going to replace existing individual
application with packaged software. If it makes sense or not is
another question, but I'd admit that in many cases it makes sense.
I have seen successful and unseccessfull attempts to replace large
COBOL applications with both packages (mostly SAP) and individual
developments. So there is no reason to use an unseccessfull example as
a general statement.
Regarding the tax dollars spent, no I'm not living in the US...

Regards HansJ

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