Retooling for the Internet Age

by Daniel Riscalla, Paul Harmon

Only recently have most companies started to seriously consider the changes they must make to their core information systems in order to successfully deploy major applications on the Internet, intranet, and related forms of open distributed computing. Companies were largely caught flat-footed by the rapid rise of the Internet and are having a tough time playing catch-up. This is even true of many established independent software vendors (ISVs), who, like the majority of their clients, are saddled with a large base of legacy code (much of it proprietary) that is hard to retrofit for this fundamentally new deployment environment.