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Original Post: More consultants wasting your money
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Austin, TX & Vienna, VA"(Business Wire)"July 23, 2003: 10x Software
and Compumatics Group, today announced a global marketing and
development agreement to jointly market and deliver value-added
migration services helping companies worldwide to migrate
Smalltalk-based mission-critical business applications to J2EE-based
applications using industry-leading 10x Software's OSP-Java
development and migration solutions. Compumatics Group will provide
Smalltalk expertise, migration planning and implementation, support
services to customers worldwide
Here's my detailed answer to such silliness. When a consultant offers to migrate you from a working application written in a toolset that is not only supported, but actively being enhanced by the vendor, stop and ask yourself who benefits from the conversion