Because service-oriented architecture is catching the eye of CEOs and other senior executives, mainframe pros should expect to have SOA plans ready to go. That’s the take-away from one of the sessions on SOA at SHARE’s recent user conference in Boston.
“Some IT [staffers] think they’re at the point where their systems can’t get any better,” says Diana Donnellan, manager of the WW business development and client relationship management, IBM Software Group. “They’ve had the same system for over 18 years, and they think they can’t come forward.”
As an example, Donnellan cites a government agency with five billing systems that is uncertain about who is using these billing systems, but it maintains regardless because the agency is unable to migrate to a common billing system.
