Gregg Willhoit

Next-generation middleware exploits IBM System z specialty engines, redefining mainframe total cost of ownership and spurring expanded legacy participation in Service Oriented Architectures Residing on mainframe platforms, such assets have been notoriously tricky and costly to change and adapt to new, typically web-centric, purposes. On the other hand, they often excel at the critical functions they have provided, typically for decades, and are highly reliable. Replacing them outright would be extremely costly as well as disruptive to operations that are commonly mission-critical to an organization. The rapid adoption of SOA in business and government organizations has radically changed this picture, and has opened the door to almost unlimited ways of mining the riches ... (more)