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[Alexander]

I'm more involved in the strategic than in the technical issues.

What i do see happening is that IT departments are tired of spending most of their IT budgets just in maintaining their existing systems, hence having very few money of their IT budgets available for building new services.

So what's happeing IMO, is that IT departments are exposing legacy systems as services and using those services to build new apps that are more flexible and adaptable to the business requirements. In other words, IT departments want to leverage their existing sytems to build more flexible aplications that can be made more adatable to an environments that is in constant flux. That's what IT architects are focused on, at least to my knowledge.


alexander

[Alexander]

Some more thoughts:

the apps vendors of the 90s provided business logic with their own underlying plumbing and they were basically database-centric

Now what I see is new appliaction vendors emerging who purely focus on the business logic and standardize on an underlying e-business platform (plumbing)

Also, i see developers building custom apps by using data and business logic from legacy apps and configuring it in a diffrent and cheaper way as a web-based app...

alexander