Refactoring choices
After attending the Gathering last wednesday, it seems that there are (anecdotally) more customers moving their front end processing to Java and .NET and leaving their back end processing on their mainframes, rather than moving the whole solution off the mainframe and downsizing to midrange systems.
Perhaps this reflects the move to systems which are NOT simply a total Java solution or a .NET solution – proving that one of the original paradigms actually work – that a Gen-based solution can be a mix of technologies.
This ability plays right into the hands of the SOA evangelists – in that the whole point of a SOA is that systems can be mixed without being reliant on the technologies - and exposing their functionality both internally and externally.
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