In the early 1990s, there was something of a rush to migrate mainframe applications to client-server platforms. By the mid-1990s, this rush slowed as organizations found themselves needing to deal with the reality of the Internet. Finally, with the bursting of the Internet bubble and the subsequent economic downturn, the accepted wisdom was that the number of legacy applications was simply too great to "convert" and that, in many cases, the best that could be done was simply to apply Web-based front ends to existing applications.