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Whether you are developing new business solutions or maintaining current systems, you have to support the needs of a changing business. Today, this often involves mainframe modernization. Mainframe modernization benefits include significant cost savings, increased business agility, and improved supportability of your IT systems.
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Today, more and more organizations are moving their System i, HP3000 or OpenVMS based systems to modern, equally reliable yet less costly platforms. Many midrange computing users were skeptical about using Microsoft enterprise platforms. But today the Microsoft Application Platform is viewed as a robust, stable, and manageable platform with superior development tools, easy administration, and low cost.
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The driving force behind UNIX Platform Modernization is that many older UNIX systems have become very expensive to maintain and upgrade. While Linux systems are closer to the price / performance offered by Microsoft the costs of UNIX/Linux based skills and the addition of 3rd party middleware drive the TCO significantly higher.
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Companies can take a number of approaches when modernizing applications on their platform: rehosting, conversion, replacement, or rewriting. Companies can enjoy the power of Dynamic IT by taking advantage of the Microsoft Application Platform for developing and deploying solutions. Microsoft provides a number of resources to help organizations get started with the Microsoft Application Platform.
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