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SaskTel switches over to Java

By: Allison Taylor On: 02 Sep 2004 For: ComputerWorld Canada Creator

There weren’t many options for SaskTel when it realized that six of its legacy applications, built many years ago on the PowerBuilder integrated development environment (IDE), needed to be converted into a newer and more strategic programming language that was easier to maintain and staff.

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There weren’t many options for SaskTel when it realized that six of its legacy applications, built many years ago on the PowerBuilder integrated development environment (IDE), needed to be converted into a newer and more strategic programming language that was easier to maintain and staff.

Nearly eight years ago the Saskatchewan-based telecom provider had four developers that were familiar with PowerBuilder, a language that has in the past been used for enterprise-level applications that in many cases have been overpowered with the advent of C, Cobol and Java. Over the years SaskTel’s skilled PowerBuilder developers were changing jobs and the company was facing a common problem, supporting integral legacy applications with fewer resources.

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Allison Taylor is a contributor to the International Data Group (IDG) News Service, which publishes global technology stories from bureaus around the world to more than 300 publications in more than 60 countries.

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