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- From: Akmal B Chaudhri <akmal@sarc.city.ac.uk>
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- Subject: REMINDER: BUILDING SOFTWARE COMPONENTS FOR RE-USE/MIGRATING LEGACY APPLICATIONS
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 14:24:29 +0100
- Organization: School of Informatics, City University, London
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- ** MIGRATING LEGACY APPLICATIONS **
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- 15th May 1996, Regents Park Forte Crest Hotel, London, UK
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- ** BUILDING SOFTWARE COMPONENTS FOR RE-USE **
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- 16th May 1996, Regents Park Forte Crest Hotel, London, UK
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- Two linked one-day forums organised by VISUAL (Vendor Independent Software
- Users' Association). VISUAL is sponsored by:
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- Amdahl Neuron Data
- AT&T Global Information Solutions Oracle
- Cincom Systems SAS Institute
- Digital Equipment Softlab
- Hewlett-Packard Software AG
- IBM Sybase
- ICL Texas Instruments
- MDIS Unisys
- Microsoft White Cross Systems
- Network Partnership
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- Bona fide educational institutions can claim a 50% discount off the forum
- price.
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-
- Abstract:
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- No new world for software development can be built without taking account
- of the old. All companies, users and suppliers alike, therefore face the
- challenge of integrating their existing software portfolios with new
- applications built to different paradigms.
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- The well-publicised Year 2000 problem provides an immediate incentive to
- review legacy software and many organisations are taking the opportunity
- this offers to audit its value at the same time. Understanding the value
- of the legacy portfolio is not a simple task but, once done, it leads
- naturally to questions of the form in which these applications should
- continue to run. If they are to continue to run essentially unchanged, how
- can maintenance effort be reduced? If they are to be re-engineered, what
- new technologies need to be taken into account? And, in either case, how
- can the legacy portfolio best be integrated with new applications being
- developed?
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- The "new world" of application development is increasingly focused on
- various levels of components: to provide more rapid development and
- manageability and to increase productivity and reduce costs through
- re-use. This brave new world is simple to describe but difficult to
- implement successfully, with re-use in particular an often elusive goal.
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- These two one-day seminars focus on such issues and experience more
- generally in meeting the two most important challenges facing software
- development groups today.
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- Further details at:
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- http://www.city.ac.uk/~ad533/confs.dir/legacy.txt
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- Regards,
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- Akmal.
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