Re: My Migrations


"Lee Unterreiner" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Fellow Dinosuars:

It's been a while.

I've been coding in C# for the last six years and I must admit I have
swallowed all of the OO Kool-Aid.

Note: (When I say 'I', I really mean 'We'. My friend and co-developer is
Rick Hardman. When I use 'we' I'm referring to y'all).

I used to say all my dreams were in COBOL. Now I have a new dream that
some in this group may share.

In this dream I work for a company called "MyMigrations". Their mission
is to move EVERYONE to .Net. Their product is called "MyMigrator". It
is to migrations like MySql is to databases.

MyMigrator sucks in a client's entire software inventory: code, data,
schemas, procs, screens, jcl, etc., etc..
It reads from any IBM, any UNIX, any HP, any Windows, but only one target
platform: .Net.
Development and deployment platform based on SOA and Smart Client
architectures using WCF and Framework 3.5
All data converted to SQL Server. All screens or Accept/Display converted
to Winforms
All source languages (all dialects) are translated to C#. The generated
code is indistinguishable from the code you or I would write.

MyMigrator is completely free and open-source. And yet despite that last
sentence "MyMigrations" makes sufficient money to pay my salary and those
of my fellow "migration experts". We get paid vast sums for our vast
knowledge of MyMigrator and the principles on which it is built (or in
Peter Dashwood's case, simply because he looks good in a tuxedo).

And then I wake up.

There is no MyMigrations yet and MyMigrator is a work in progress.

There are many, many components to MyMigrator. To become ubiquitous, it
must be both wide and deep.

Despite writing and designing (and not documenting) at the same time, I
have made significant progress in a number of areas. Where I lag behind
some of you is that I still rely on Fujitsu COBOL. But paying the bills
added virtually all of the database, SOA, Fortran (go figure), a start on
RPG, and several 3GL's I hope I never see again.

Sorry to ramble. The reason I asked you all here today is that I would
like to ask you to email me offline if you have similar dreams. The email
address is lee at db-net dot com. This is intended for serious
discussions only.

If I have offended an group ettiquete. EMIA. I'm an old man and don't
understand the internets as well as I should. Besides, I know Bill Klein,
he's a friend of mine, and you're no Bill Klein.

Lee


ell - OK, then.

Good luck with MyMigraine....


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