IBM Systems Application Architecture: Difference between revisions

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The standard was "designed to make application programs look and work in the same manner across the entire range of the company's personal computing systems, midrange processors and System/370 processors."<ref>{{cite web|last=IBM Corporation|title=IBM Archives: 1987|url=http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1987.html}}</ref>

SAA was labeled "complex, obscure, and potentially difficult to learn."<ref name=Linnell>{{cite book|last=Linnell|first=Dennis|title=The SAA Handbook|year=1990|publisher=Addison-Wesley|isbn=0-201-51786-8|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books/about/The_SAA_handbook.html?id=ZVkPAQAAMAAJ}}</ref>{{rp|p.xi}}

Under [[Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.|Lou Gerstner]] IBM later quietly discontinued use of the "SAA" [[Umbrella term|umbrella]]. By 2001, SAA was being spoken of in the past tense.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cooper|first=Charles|title=Gerstner's legacy and why it matters|url=http://www.zdnetasia.com/gerstners-legacy-and-why-it-matters-38030327.htm|accessdate=June 20, 2012|newspaper=ZDNet|date=November 2, 2001}}</ref> However many of the individual components of SAA are still in use {{as of|2014|lc=y}}.

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==Further reading==

* {{cite book|last=Grochow|first=Jerrold M.|title=SAA: a guide to implementing IBM's systems application architecture|year=1991|publisher=Yourdon Press|isbn=9780137857593|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books/about/SAA.html?id=vu1QAAAAMAAJ}}

==External links==