Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving
by taylodl on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:54PM
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You're not wrong. Oracle is making a big play in the utility space and so they have a lot of solutions available that can be hosted on-prem or in their "cloud" - which really is somebody else's data center. Their solutions are all JEE based and run on WebLogic.
What gives me pause for concern is the JEE/WebLogic platform is now as old as COBOL was in the 1980's when we were calling it "dead" and we're still looking at 5-7 years of development and migration time to get to the new system. What will we think of JEE/WebLogic in 2030? My biggest concern is they're going to spend all this money to get onto another soon-to-be-legacy platform that they're going to realize on day 1 they need to start planning on getting away from. This is why mainframes have been so "sticky."
What gives me pause for concern is the JEE/WebLogic platform is now as old as COBOL was in the 1980's when we were calling it "dead" and we're still looking at 5-7 years of development and migration time to get to the new system. What will we think of JEE/WebLogic in 2030? My biggest concern is they're going to spend all this money to get onto another soon-to-be-legacy platform that they're going to realize on day 1 they need to start planning on getting away from. This is why mainframes have been so "sticky."