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SOA Feature: Redefining the Economics of Mainframe SOA

Redefining the Economics of Mainframe SOA
By Gregg Willhoit
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March 3, 2008 01:00 PM EST
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Next-generation middleware exploits IBM System z specialty engines, redefining mainframe total cost of ownership and spurring expanded legacy participation in Service Oriented Architectures

Residing on mainframe platforms, such assets have been notoriously tricky and costly to change and adapt to new, typically web-centric, purposes. On the other hand, they often excel at the critical functions they have provided, typically for decades, and are highly reliable. Replacing them outright would be extremely costly as well as disruptive to operations that are commonly mission-critical to an organization.

Published March 3, 2008 – Reads 2,950
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About Gregg Willhoit

Gregg Willhoit is chief software architect for DataDirect Technologies (www.datadirect.com) and provides technical leadership for the Shadow mainframe SOA and data integration middleware products. He has architected and developed a wide variety of commercially successful software products including DBMS Catalog Management tools, MVS and DB2 performance monitors and is the co-developer of the Shadow Direct ODBC-to-mainframe data product for DB2, IMS, VSAM, CICS and Adabas.

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