
The End of Legacy
The first time I heard “Legacy Systems” was in the early 90s when working at Coors. It was in reference to the mainframe and dumb terminals around the campus. I was far more excited about the cutting edge stuff like Windows For Workgroups including Schedule Plus. We were busy installing this stuff via Novell Netware […]

Organized Robbery
We’re at a time of rebellion against maintenance fees, which now include the elements of insurance, extortion, declining systems, and of course refactoring all of which add to the costs of any implementation. Add that into the actual implementation itself, and one is left with whopping fees and eventually ineffective…

SaaS Risk Reduction – Planning for Maintenance and Outages
Image via Wikipedia This is the fifth post in the SaaS Risk Reduction Series. In this post, I am going to talk about the importance of planning for the maintenance and outages as a part of your SaaS strategy. Imagine putting all your data on the Clouds and at a crucial juncture, when one of your clients […]