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FAA Legacy System Crashes; Can SOA Change That Flight Path?

An FAA legacy system recently failed, resulting in flight delays throughout
the United States last week. Though the outage was only 2.5 hours, it highlights
the challenges of maintaining legacy systems.

Organizations see SOA as a means to effectively migrate away from legacy
systems. In fact, 50% of participants in Nemertes' Service Oriented
Architectures and Applications benchmark plan to migrate legacy systems to
SOA, while 20% plan to first encapsulate and then migrate; the remainder will
either leave legacy systems isolated from their SOA or permanently encapsulate
(5.2%).

Impacts:

Enterprises: Consider SOA as a means to effectively move away from legacy
systems or encapsulate legacy systems that cannot be migrated.

Vendors: Supporting legacy system migration can be a key differentiator.

Investors: Look for consolidation by SOA mainstays such as IBM (NYSE:IBM) and
Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) going after specialized application migration providers
including privately held Ateras, Seagull Software, and Softweb Solutions.

Ted Ritter, Research Analyst

http://www.nemertes.com/benchmarks/nemertes_benchmark_softwareoriented_architectures_and_applications
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Corrupt-File-Brought-Down-FAAs-Antiquated-IT-System/?kc=rss