Is That What You Think Modernization Means?

January 16, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When most IBM i shops think about “modernization,” what they are talking about is taking legacy applications and in some fashion – and quite possible with many different methods – making those applications work better on newer kinds of clients and/or using newer front-end technologies to make them function better or look better. The researchers at IDC have a more expansive definition of modernization, at least according to a whitepaper that the market researcher recently did on behalf of the Power Systems line at IBM.

That whitepaper, entitled The Key Requirements of Modernization and the Role of IBM Power10, …