The Price Of Progress: Assessing The Need For A Mobile Computing Migration

A choice of new mobile computing hardware can often have a significant impact on existing software applications and business processes. Perhaps the disruption of a complete overhaul of software and hardware, along with the associated business processes, is more change than a business can bear. Having the prerogative to phase in change on the timetable of your business versus the “rip and replace” timetable of technology is difficult to achieve. Look for new computers that support terminal emulation so that you can fully leverage your existing legacy software applications and migrate them to the new platform according to your own timetable. Some computers feature powerful mobile Windows operating systems and also support terminal emulation, which provides backwards and forwards compatibility with legacy applications and future mobile computing advances. The PocketPC and Windows CE.