Jason's Blog on Oracle Modernization Solutions

Reducing Cost and Modernizing Mainframe Applications with Oracle Tuxedo at Open World

By Jason Williamson on September 9, 2009 6:17 PM

I wanted to take the opportunity during the run up to Open World to get some of the Modernization Sessions out there on the blog. We are seeing quite a lot of rehosting activity in the world today and I...

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Modernize the IT Infrastructure - a real look

By Jason Williamson on May 12, 2009 1:52 PM

Hey Guys: I like to post case study's that we've done with our customers and partners to keep the information flowing about the reality of modernization. Often, when we talk with customers, it is viewed as a bit of a...

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A Reference Architecture for Legacy Modernization

By Jason Williamson on April 2, 2009 9:04 PM

I was recently visiting a customer in Latin America discussing what a target architecture would look like given that some of the code would migrate over 'as-is' in Cobol, and some new work would be done in Java, while at...

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Oracle BI and the Mainframe: A Case Study

By Jason Williamson on March 18, 2009 2:21 PM

I am very excited about the recent press release done by our partner, DataDirect. Oracle Modernization recently worked with DataDirect and Md to integrate OBIEE with the legacy mainframe to IMS. This was a classic example of heterogeneous data sources...

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Oracle BI and the Mainframe: Case Study

By Jason Williamson on March 18, 2009 2:17 PM

I am very excited about the recent press release done by our partner, DataDirect. I worked on this project with them to integrate OBIEE with the legacy mainframe to IMS. This was a classic example of heterogeneous data sources that...

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Mainframe and Legacy Re-Architecture (Part 1)

By Jason Williamson on March 4, 2009 10:55 AM

I see over and over an ongoing debate regarding re-hosting the legacy platform and re-developing re-engineering it. The answer to that question is always, IT DEPENDS. Any of these discussions should not start with an particular approach (SOA Enablment, Rehosting,...

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Legacy Modernization Event in Sweden

By Jason Williamson on June 5, 2008 2:34 PM

Hey Folks: Thought I would post about an event in Sweden coming up that we are doing with HP and Intel as a part of the Application Modernization Initiative (AMI). The event will be 24 June, and will be in...

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Modernisation, Mainframes and Europe

By Jason Williamson on April 1, 2008 6:24 PM

Legacy Modernisation  in EuropeGreetings from the UK. In the spirit of "when in rome" I'll drop my z's from this post.I wanted to make a couple of quick observations for the level of activity I see in EMEA right now....

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Oracle on IBM Z

By Jason Williamson on March 6, 2008 2:28 PM

I just wanted to drop a very very post here and answer the question about Z.Can oracle run on Z? Well, of course. With respect to 10g, that is fully certified on Z/OS (yep...) and Z/Linux. It is well worth...

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