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 postVivify 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 postVisual 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 postA 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 postRehost, 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 postWe run our Code Analyzer across your source code and give you a dependency map, risk scoring, an effort model and a costed migration plan. It costs nothing and the plan is yours to keep.