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		<title>Watch it: Agile COBOL 2009</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/watch-it-agile-cobol-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jkumon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to our friends at Micro Focus for THE COBOLATOR video, which they shot to celebrate 50 years of COBOL.
We at MAKE spend all of our time helping customers who are sick of their legacy systems and the lack of flexibility they bring. These mainframe applications cost a lot of companies massive amounts of money. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlegacy.wordpress.com&blog=3623446&post=292&subd=gotlegacy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wang Freestyle</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/wang-freestyle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miklernout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great introduction video to the Wang Freestyle:

Favorite quotes:

&#8220;First, I turn it into a piece of paper&#8221;
&#8220;Get it together guys, get it together&#8221;
&#8220;Notice that you can kinda read them&#8221;
&#8220;This shows me that this file is stapled together, so I grab my &#8216;un-stapler&#8217;&#8221;

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		<title>The COBOLATOR. Oh my&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/the-cobolator-oh-my/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 22:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miklernout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to our friends at MicroFocus for this:

So what skills would THE COBOLATOR have:

Hunt down executives and force them write copy module code?
Bill, by force, monthly fees for a platform he no longer intend to support or develop?
Talk you into moving your legacy mess on UNIX or Windows and make you believe it is modernization?
Duck [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlegacy.wordpress.com&blog=3623446&post=279&subd=gotlegacy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is Manual Data Migration Still An Option?</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/why-is-manual-data-migration-still-an-option/</link>
		<comments>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/why-is-manual-data-migration-still-an-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miklernout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The six of them fought a battle of attrition against an insurmountable foe; a flow of paper that never seemed to end. Each morning they&#8217;d retrieve a big stack of printed customer records, which would represent their work for the day. There was another staff member dedicated to printing, and yet another whose sole task [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlegacy.wordpress.com&blog=3623446&post=272&subd=gotlegacy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0 takes revenge</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/web-20-takes-revenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miklernout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve seen a lot of legacy vendors come out with strangely out-of-place extensions to keep their solutions &#8220;current&#8221; or &#8220;in touch with the market&#8221;. We&#8217;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. 
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		<title>A Legacy System MAKEover?</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/a-legacy-system-makeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>azrodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[audience ratings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legacy System Modernization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Make]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the TV programming spectrum being so spattered by reality shows I thought of making a simplistic analogy between the work we do here at MAKE and the &#8220;Makeover&#8221; series that you can find on different channels about so many different things that need to be modernized, improved or renovated for whatever reasons.
I have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlegacy.wordpress.com&blog=3623446&post=236&subd=gotlegacy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zen of the Green Screen: A Collection of Mainframe Haikus</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/zen-of-the-green-screen-a-collection-of-mainframe-haikus/</link>
		<comments>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/zen-of-the-green-screen-a-collection-of-mainframe-haikus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miklernout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at MAKE Technologies spend far too much time thinking and talking about mainframes, the crazy languages they run and legacy issues. These are the results of a mainframe-haiku-contest we held last week, in preparation for some awesome SWAG we&#8217;re planning for our Oracle OpenWorld booth at Intel&#8217;s Inside Innovation Showcase:
Sun rises in West
Birds fall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlegacy.wordpress.com&blog=3623446&post=231&subd=gotlegacy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Win Friends and Migrate Data</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/how-to-win-friends-and-migrate-data/</link>
		<comments>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/how-to-win-friends-and-migrate-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tmetzger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[data migration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data migration is like everything else &#8211; there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.  Actually there is a right way for every scenario, and many, many wrong ways!  This article will help you consider the alternatives.
What is data migration?
Just to make sure we&#8217;re comparing apples to apples, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlegacy.wordpress.com&blog=3623446&post=214&subd=gotlegacy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to build a roadmap for your legacy applications</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/build-a-roadmap-for-legacy-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tmetzger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Modernization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You got to know when to hold &#8216;em
Know when to fold &#8216;em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
- Kenny Rogers
Today I am going to write something simply useful.  And I might get in trouble for this, when the execs realize that I&#8217;m telling you how to do most of an SMR, a service [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlegacy.wordpress.com&blog=3623446&post=182&subd=gotlegacy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Learned Helplessness of IT Managers</title>
		<link>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-skinner-box-for-it-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-skinner-box-for-it-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tmetzger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, while riding in to work, it struck me that managers in large IT organizations exhibit something called &#8220;learned helplessness.&#8221;  From Wikipedia:
Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a human being or an animal has learned to act or behave helpless in a particular situation, even when it has the power to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlegacy.wordpress.com&blog=3623446&post=130&subd=gotlegacy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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