We’ve seen a lot of legacy vendors come out with strangely out-of-place extensions to keep their solutions “current” or “in touch with the market”. We’ve had AJAX on Natural/ADABAS, Object Oriented COBOL and Unisys mainframes on the web, which I added just for its awesome name: Cool ICE, or Internet Commerce Enabler.
Now Web 2.0 takes revenge: a Javascript API to 80-column punch cards: http://www.outstandingelephant.com/jcquard/.
- Mik Lernout
