Overview As a gateway to major commercial centers of the United States and internationally, Inglewood is in a unique position on the shore of the Pacific Rim. It has a population of around 116,000. The City’s reputation and its accessibility to major freeways and Los Angeles International Airport makes it an attractive business investment. Challenge The City had traditionally operated a majority of its large systems in a mainframe environment and relied on its team of five COBOL develop - ers to build applications as required. Assistant City Manager and CIO, Michael D. Falkow aimed to reduce the City’s reliance on the mainframe, and undertook a series of projects to move ap plications onto other platforms. The easi- est option for many of the applications was to purchase comm

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