Posted by Mike on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 477 views
Focus on technical simplicity will be key to project success, city IT officials say
The city of Indianapolis and Marion County have embarked on a $16 million technology overhaul designed to improve business processes, standardize technology and drive down costs.
Under the planned three-year effort, the city will replace its ancient mainframe-based backoffice systems with technology based on Oracle Corp.’s PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning suite.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 342 views
Owens & Minor moves Cobol-based ERP system to x86 server, Windows machines
A lot of Cobol-based applications have a plot line similar to the first Star Trek movie.
In it, the crew of the Enterprise discovers a huge, intelligent cloud they called “V’ger.” It turns out (plot spoiler alert), though, that V’ger was an unmanned spacecraft called Voyager that had been launched from Earth some 300 years earlier and then readapted by alien forces.
That Star Trek movie was released in 1979. The Cobol-based ERP application suite used by Owens & Minor Inc., a medical supply company, began its life in the 1980s as a packaged application. Over time, the company adapted the ERP software to meet its specific needs, creating a highly customized system with 10 million lines of code. (READ MORE)
