Managing the development of a mainframe‐based inquiry system for the Internet

Although the Internet and the World Wide Web (Web) have existed for several years, it has only been in the past year or two that high‐powered software and infrastructure have been available for a company to web enable legacy mainframe systems (i.e. to provide an Internet front‐end). This paper addresses the management considerations in developing a web‐enabled mainframe using current Internet technologies and without the added cost and maintenance overhead of new hardware and expensive software.