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Often Need Coexistence to Enable New Stuff

Nice article.

Web-based tools really are "raising the bar". But in many enterprises, they can end up getting locked out if they don't play nicely with legacy applications. Take a case as apparently harmless as IM - in some places, IM is blocked until IT figures out how to integrate it with existing archiving solutions for regulatory compliance.

And the deeper you get into the existing infrastructure, the more effective co-existence needs to be to enable new approaches to "gradually usurp" the legacy.

For instance, for core email, calendaring and collaboration, PostPath has gone out of its way to create real "drop-in" interoperability with existing Exchange infrastructure (see here, for example: http://www.postpath.com/products/ppsd/compatibility).

Samba does similarly for file-and-print.

For many core IT applications this kind of deep legacy interoperability is really required, in most enterprises anyway, to enable a move to new ways of doing things - or, more precisely, to enable a move to combinations of different ways of doing things. For these apps, you want the Web2.0-ish innovation - but you also need real legacy co-existence to enable you to get there.

Posted by: dgreatwood   Posted on: 05/15/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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