Jason's Blog on Oracle Modernization Solutions

SQL Developer Book --

By Jason Williamson on August 28, 2009 8:32 PM

Hey Folks Sue Harper is about to release a book on SQL Developer with PacktPublishing. Btw---and another shameless plug..they are the same publisher who did our book on Modernization Anyway, back to Susan's book. This is good stuff. With more...

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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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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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Sybase Migrations with SQL Developer Migration Workbench

By Jason Williamson on October 10, 2008 9:08 AM

I wanted to follow up on a few ideas from an earlier post and talk a bit more about how practically to move these kinds of datastores (Sybase) and what tools you have available to do this. SQL Developer Migration...

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Rehosting Mainframe Cobol with Oracle Tuxedo

By Jason Williamson on July 1, 2008 12:27 PM

Hey Folks. Sweden was great, btw. Customer turn out was excellent and the speakers were good. (yeah, I know, I was one of them...i meant the other guys) So, now that Charles and Thomas have announced the Middleware story with...

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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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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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Why Modernize?

By Jason Williamson on November 17, 2006 4:19 PM

Hello folks.Here is the next installment around Oracle Modernization. That question...why modernize.Let me first refer you to a white paper on our site and then go into some of my own thoughts as well.Click here for the white paper:...

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