Birket writes:
> 0) You must know what the business plan is for the next 3-5
> years and you must
> know what applications support the business functions today.
>   [Loop for each application]
> 1) Does the application meet the needs of the business for

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Trying not to add to the chicken-egg thread, I would quickly mention that I
agree with Birket's steps even without the 11/14 announcement.  Every year a
company should revise the business plan for the next 3-5 years and make sure
the infrastructure will support the plan.  If the infrastructure is not
there then you follow the steps further.  However, I cannot decide to move
to MPE/iX running on IA-64 natively or emulated under Linux without checking
if the tools are available to do that first.  So clearly, it is an iterative
process and all of the steps listed by Birket are important, but you may
have to revisit them depending on the tools available at the time.  I would
also add that Duane Percox had some good thoughts when he suggested that one
should look at your business processes aside from the current
software/hardware.  In this way, one can migrate different parts of your
applications at different times.  So in the first step you can replace
application with "the user interface" or "the data store" and follow the
same steps.

FWIW,

Mark Wonsil

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