This old code - Software Emancipation Technology's Discover year 2000 conversion software - Product Information - Brief Article

Software Magazine, Oct 15, 1997 by Ann Harrison

Many client server/based applications written in C and C are ports of legacy programs and share the same data-field problems. CIOs often don't realize that their client/server apps need fixing along with mainframe, legacy, and Cobol applications. Most Y2K tools are geared to Cobol -- not C and C -- but the Discover Y2K product from Software Emancipation Technology (SET) automates the development life cycle to fix these "newer" applications.

Houston-based Comsys Information technology Services uses Discover Y2K as part of its service offering to clients managing large Year 2000 analysis and conversion projects composed of C and C code. Comsys provides staffing and technology solutions to fortune 1000 and government clients. It offers Discover Y2K as an underlying technology to complement a number of conversion methodologies.

According to Benton Rhee, director of Comsys Millennium Services, a large mortgage banking company is using Discover Y2K to document assessment and impact analysis. "It's a very comprehensive inventory of applications and programs written in C and C ," says Rhee. "The information model -- the database that houses the information on the inventory -- is scalable to any size of application and is incrementally updated allowing changes to the software to be reflected immediately."

Once the information model is built, says Rhee,the organization has a catalog of their software system, which it can leverage to improve processes for software reuse, for managing large-scales of software reengineering projects, and for locating and removing dormant code.

"A lot of companies are asking, 'Why should I spend money on a product that I use once and then throw away?'" says Rhee. "They don't have to do this with Discover Y2K."