LEGACY discussion

[Francesco Marletta]

Il 06 Jun 2003 12:18:04 +0200
Alessio Dessi ha scritto:

> se me ne dimentico qualcuna aggiungetela
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> le proposte fatte finora per legacy
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> 1) obsolete
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> 2) precedenti
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> 3) avite
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> 

Ho fatto anche stavolta la mia bella ricerca in rete ed ecco cosa ho
trovato:

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legacy application

An application in which a company or organization has already invested
considerable time and money. Typically, legacy applications are database
management systems (DBMSs) running on mainframes or minicomputers. An
important feature of new software products is the ability to work with a
company's legacy applications, or at least be able to import data from
them.

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legacy application (definizione trovata 3 volte)

In information technology, legacy applications and data are those that
have been inherited from languages, platforms, and techniques earlier
than current technology. Most enterprises who use computers have legacy
applications and databases that serve critical business needs.
Typically, the challenge is to keep the legacy application running while
converting it to newer, more efficient code that makes use of new
technology and programmer skills. In the past, much programming has been
written for specific manufacturers' operating systems. Currently, many
companies are migrating their legacy applications to new programming
languages and operating systems that follow open or standard programming
interfaces. Theoretically, this will make it easier in the future to
update applications without having to rewrite them entirely and will
allow a company to use its applications on any manufacturer's operating
system.

In addition to moving to new languages, enterprises are redistributing
the locations of applications and data. In general, legacy applications
have to continue to run on the platforms they were developed for.
Typically, new development environments account for the need to continue
to support legacy applications and data. With many new tools, legacy
databases can be accessed by newer programs. 

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quindi per quel che riguarda "legacy application" e "legay properties"
direi che abbiamo di che sbattere la testa.

al lavoro...

Francesco