Forrester survey: Enterprises taking aim at legacy apps

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"Large enterprises plan on replacing their old applications this year, holding their software budgets steady.."

You realize those are fairly incompatible goals, don't you? Something is gonna give there. Old applications generally fit in the category of "sunk costs" and new purchases fit in the category of "new costs". So, unless your new software/migration costs less than your recurring costs on the old software, you can't meet the second part of your statement, much less reduce costs. And legacy systems are generally still around because they are cheaper to maintain than replace.

I put surveys like this in the category of "yeah, I should call Mom more often". Good intentions that never really get carried through. The goals stated above are generally mutually exclusive. Migrating off legacy is not going to keep your expenditures flat. You have to maintain the existing systems while the others come online. Concurrent costs. Takes funny money to hide that.

Posted by: rijrunner   Posted on: 06/09/09  (Edited: 06/09/2009 @ 10:40) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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