Organisations will be forced to spend billions of dollars extra in application modernisation programs

SYDNEY, 31 January, 2011: Organisations will be forced to spend billions of dollars extra in application modernisation programs if systems written in old programming languages are not retired soon.

Kevin Francis, National Microsoft Practice Manager at Sydney-based software developer Object Consulting, said such tales were not surprising.

According to Mr. Francis: “Enterprise architects need to be vigilant and move away from certain languages before they become unsupported”. The longer you wait the more costly the exercise will be.

Organisations should conduct an urgent review, move away from old environments, or risk bigger problems if they rested on their laurels.

Applications written in languages that should be retired immediately include Java 1.1, J2SE 1.3, RPG, Smalltalk, Pascal and FoxPro.

Those that have a three-year shelf life include .NET 2.0, J2SE 1.4 and Cold Fusion.

Migrating from the mainframe was not impossible, but it was a step-by-step process.

"You could get off the mainframe, you could have Cobol on Windows, but that only solves half the problem. So the trick is to go the whole way and migrate from Cobol to C# (pronounced C sharp)," he said.

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