AS400 RPG Scanning Question

        Whatever happened to the concept and practicality of protecting 
software investment?
        In a situation where the technology changes venues, in all likelihood, 
the database will change.
        Is there no way, that the front end extract/sort mechanism can be built 
, and maintain the existing programs?

        I witness this all too often, wherein, after a movement to a new 
vendor's software base, all the projects 
        after that point, are involved with re-inventing the wheel.
        I guess a lot of companies have 'more money than brains'..
        Typical purchase of a reporting set of tools that interface with the 
'new' technology, and then millions spent on 
        redoing, what was already in place.

        I have to wonder some time, if our own stupidity isn't a great source 
of fodder for out-sourcing. 



Ken Shields
Oshawa systems group
Works 81, Oshawa Ontario