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ZDNet: Open Source Java Route Yields Big Savings

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 17, 2003

“What do you do when the heterogeneity of your IT infrastructure
and your OS-specific legacy deployments are standing in the way of
true progress?

“You could follow the same path that Steve Goldsmith,
Application Software Development Supervisor at FCCI Insurance Group
did when he embarked on a mission to level the playing field across
FCCI’s Windows, Linux, Oracle, and AS/400-based systems.

“Achieving some commonality across all systems meant
standardizing on a platform for business logic that was common to
all, picking an integrated development environment that could
address the entire infrastructure, and applying some glue to handle
the presentation…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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