Mainframe Migration in the Technology Adoption Lifecycle
02 Dec, 2011
The idea of using mathematics to model the socioeconomic phenomenon of technology adoption will be 55 years old next year. What we now call the Technology Adoption Lifecycle is attributed to the 1957 study of Beal and Bohlen, who analyzed how some farmers in the United States managed risk by embracing innovative products more slowly than others. With TALC, we find definitions for commonplace terms today of “innovators”, “early adopters”, the “early” and “late majority”, and “laggards”.
But what can TALC do to help us understand the market dynamics of mainframe migration? Today, the interest in users of mainframe technology to migrate their applications to other platforms is so important that an entire industry has emerged to service it. Here are some reasons why TALC falls flat for mainframe migration:
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