Practical writing for people who own a legacy system or deliver modernization work: how to choose an approach, what migrations actually involve, and where the risk really lives.
COBOL still runs core systems in finance, insurance, and government, and the people who maintain it are retiring. Here are the realistic options for a COBOL system (stay, rehost, rewrite, automated conversion), what each involves, and how to decide.
Read the post →Vivify converts legacy applications with more than 90% automation. This is an honest breakdown of what that number means: which parts of a migration automate well, which still need people, and why the last stretch is manual.
Read the post →Visual Basic 6 has no supported upgrade path from Microsoft. Here are the realistic options for a VB6 application (rewrite in .NET, rebuild as a web app, or automated conversion), what each costs, and how to choose.
Read the post →A practical guide to moving a PowerBuilder application to the modern web: the real options (rewrite, replatform, automated conversion to TypeScript/React), what each costs in time and risk, and how to decide which one fits your codebase.
Read the post →Rehost, replatform, rewrite, replace, or automated conversion. A plain comparison of the five main ways to modernize a legacy system, including where automated conversion is the wrong choice.
Read the post →Send us a representative slice of your legacy application. We will modernize it and show you the clean, standard code you would own, before you commit to the full modernization.