by webadmin | Oct 24, 2012 | COTS, SOA, Software Development
Organization capabilities can be protected by commercial off the shelf software. This is described in Federal Acquisition Regulation as a non-developmental object (NDI) distributed in market or applied under contracts of the government. COTS pc software is substitute to government-funded projects or in-house projects. Before applying COTS, is imperative to be revised in accordance to the use. Government applications and several business dictated the use of COTS because it costs less with regards to maintenance, development, and purchase. Considerations in Buying Commercial Off The Shelf Software There are several reasons to consider using off shelf software. Mostly, company organizations acquire COTS for IT development without increasing costs. Through COTS, the maintenance expenses are reduced without reducing the necessary features. Investing in a COTS solution may include a few benefits. None the less, there are elements you need to investigate just before purchasing a COTS solution. These components are included below: *Prior to investing in a COTS solution, project teams must analyze custom growth and take required procedures to prevent disappointment. Errors which may occur as time goes on may result to implementation setbacks. The target needs of companies will assist experts lower threat of important and unexpected costs at various periods of COTS project. The desired outcomes should be defined by the business objectives whereby the project accomplishes and offers such a thing against different functions prioritized. Experts claim that an institution wanting to place a COTS solution should feel in the prospect of fixing dollar price to each feature. *Business target are challenging; hence, it’s imperative to exchange COTS alongside business procedures. It must be expected that the...
by webadmin | Oct 17, 2012 | Code Generation, Software Development, Software Modernization
In compsci, code technology is called the procedure by which a compiler’s code generator changes many advanced representation of source code generator into a type that’s easily applied by a device. Compilers an average of execute numerous passes over a number of advanced types. This process can be used since several calculations for code optimization are more straightforward to utilize one at the same time and as the feedback to an optimization depends upon the running performed by another optimization. This business also aids the development of several architectures that can be targeted by a single compiler since only the final of the code generation phases demands changing from target to target with a code generator. The input to the signal generator is composed of a tree or an abstract syntax tree. The tree is turned into a linear series of instructions, an advanced program language like three address code is generally employed. Extra phases of collection may or may perhaps not be named as ‘signal generation”, which depends upon if they include an essential change in the display of the plan. A typical code turbine attempts to increase the generated code in some manner because it is added to the transformation from an intermediate representation to a linear series of machine instructions. The turbine may use less coaching, use faster directions, use accessible registers and avoid repetitive calculations. Duties which are an average of section of a code generation stage range from the following: * Instruction selection: searching for the directions that you need to use * Instruction scheduling: creating on the best way to place these coaching...
by webadmin | Oct 17, 2012 | general, Micro Focus
When people ask me about Micro Focus COBOL Modernization, I’m always at a bit of a loss as to how to respond. First, is the question about moving off the mainframe and switching out the mainframe COBOL (such as Unisys COBOL or IBM COBOL) for the Micro Focus product? Or is the question related to getting rid of the customer’s existing Micro Focus COBOL and replacing it with a Java or .NET application? I’ve found that either could be the case. Taking the first possibility, moving off the mainframe might be a good thing, but why stay with the COBOL? You’ve gotten rid of the mainframe, and maybe saved $1m per year or more. But you’ve traded one vendor lock-in (your mainframe company) for another (Micro Focus), and you still have to recruit, train, or steal COBOL programmers. Doesn’t Micro Focus have monopoly pricing power for COBOL licenses? They’re not teaching COBOL to most freshman computer science graduates, and those of us that wrote it in the 70’s and 80’s are more than eligible for retirement. Worse, you don’t have the wide variety of open source software and great development tools to choose from if you stick with COBOL, and it’s difficult to build highly responsive web applications using what will soon be a 50 year old computer language! I’m often struck, also, by the cost of this kind of Micro Focus COBOL Modernization project. COBOL is COBOL, right? So why does it take years and millions of dollars to move it from one computer to another? Well, actually there are good reasons, starting with the somewhat mistaken idea...
by webadmin | Oct 16, 2012 | COTS, general
We get a number of inquiries about Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software. The reasons vary: some want to know if we can modernize the COTS software they are using, and the answer to that is “Yes”. Some want to know if we can modernize their existing software, saving them from the expense and disruption of buying and installing a COTS software package – and the answer to that also is “Yes”. Some organizations who have old software believe that their only alternative is to buy a COTS package. And many advisors advocate doing exactly that, because our industry has a poor track record when it comes to rewriting software, or writing new software from scratch. The internet and trade journals are full of stories about software project schedule and cost overruns. And in most of those stories, the vendor blames the customer for changing the requirements or some other fault. We can avoid those problems for you. We can give you a new system, fixed price, according to a schedule that we will meet. If you are running an older COTS package, we can give you the same functionality without ever needing to work with the source code to the old package. COTS package implementations have their problems, too. The software never does exactly what you want “out of the box”; any major software COTS package needs customization and programming to make it work in your business. And your workers have to adapt to the new system, which probably will have rules and restrictions that are different from how your business currently operates. A DMV customer service representative...
by webadmin | Oct 12, 2012 | Code Generation, general, JAVA, legacy modernization
Because we write a lot of code very quickly, sometimes people conclude that Java code generation is responsible for the speed we achieve. And, in a way they’re right, although often people have in mind the old style code generators of the 70’s when they say that. This is not your father’s code generator. When we built our technology, we knew there are two things people hate about code generators: first, they write low quality code. The code is not commented and it usually makes use of proprietary function calls. Worse, the organization of the code is such that if you modify it, you will probably lose your changes when the code is regenerated. There is no mechanism to allow you to safely put your custom code into the generated application. Second, the old style generators are inflexible — they will write the code the way they want to do it, not the way you would do it yourself. You can’t modify the generator program, and you can’t get access to the “stock” code it might be using to produce your particular application. If you can live with the results, fine; but if not, you’re stuck. In our first Java code generation solution, we solved those problems, and today that same core technology powers both our Java and .NET offerings. In fact, ResQSoft® Engineer was originally built as a new development tool, and it can be used to develop a new system from scratch, or to modernize an old system where the source code has been lost. It can even be used to create a replacement for that old...
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