In this Digital CIO Summit moment, excerpted from the digital event that took place from April 4-6, Bob Evans and FedEx CIO Rob Carter discuss why it’s necessary to move on from legacy technologies.
Highlights
00:05 — Mainframes got businesses far, but they’re not the dominant design today.
00:18 — Years ago, Rob was chatting with a new recruit who saw a 3270 green screen emulator running and said, “I’ve never seen one of those before.”
00:45 —Businesses don’t want new recruits saying things like “I’ve only heard about those in museums.” Fortunately, for Rob’s teams, there’s a lot of cloud-native work to do.
01:13 — As the world’s talent begins to move away from things that are non-dominant design, how exposed do businesses leave themselves?
01:25 — Universities are not teaching legacy technologies anymore. Businesses are exposed if they “don’t move on from the legacy technologies that don’t represent today’s dominant design compute.”
