> Being willing to pay that amount of cash for a project where the client
> can't see any business value-add, means that this client is lucky to still
> be in business! And trying to design software in this kind of way means,
> well something similar.
hehe, you never worked with 'high payed consultants' ? ;)
FB
>
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> Ernst Kuschke
> MVP - C# (South Africa)
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>
> On 11/16/06, Itay Zandbank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Well, in that case, if there is indeed a reasonable COBOL.NET, why not
> > use it? They can later, if they feel like it, migrate bit by bit, but
> > they'll get a working .NET solution relatively quickly (and I'm pretty
> > sure it won't cost them $600,000).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Rothlander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: Data Structures in .Net?
> >
> > I just wanted to point out the reason we are doing this because a number
> > of post have suggest not try this at all. Here's the basic reasoning
> > behind attempting to this and not just wanting to rewrite it.
> >
> > The options for the client are really pretty simple. If there is no
> > solution in .Net, the client will simply throw out .Net as a solution,
> > as .Net doesn't look like it can handle this. They would have the
> > option of working with other .Net languages such as COBOL for .Net,
> > which kind of destroy the whole point of moving to .Net in my opinion.
> > So I find it hard to recommend that to a client.
> >
> > The odd thing here is that this is being done in Java without any
> > issues...
> > or at least the issues where not big enough to throw out the solution.
> > So in my opinion the client would simply choose Java over .Net since
> > .Net cannot handle this. The estimates that we are coming up with are
> > about $20M to rewrite and about $300K to $600K to migrate the code in
> > Java. So it would be hard for a $10M company to pick .Net over Java
> > with the price tag of $20M compared to $600K. No matter how many points
> > we give them in regards to how .Net compares to Java, the price tag
> > along will kill it.
> >
> > I don't know how Java is able to do this, but it does. There are legacy
> > tools to translate this code into Java... and they work. Whatever
> > solution the Java tools are using would seem to be something I could use
> > in .Net.
> > Maybe that's the direction I should go with this. De-engineer a Java
> > solution.
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