IBM Mainframe (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Last week I had an epiphany while attending the SAP Financial Services Forum in New York City: I no longer hate those 40-year-old mainframe legacy systems that for years I dismissed as old and uncommunicative.
I realized it’s not the legacy systems I hate. They are actually marvels of engineering. No, it’s what has built up around them that I hate. Companies and IT departments have spent decades layering complex add-ons around those heroic cores....