I have just one question: do we have to go through the swamp again?
—From the movie “The Land Before Time X:The Great Longneck Migration,” 2003
Chapter 11
Migration
… an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
—C.C. Colton,English cleric, writer, and collector
From a management point of view, a migration project involves spending money to go from Point A to Point A. For example, one has had an Accounts Receivable system on the mainframe and now one will have an Account Receivable system running on an alternate operating system and database. What exactly has the business gained? This is important because many IT (information technology) projects that get funded are maintenance or ...
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