All over the world, massive numbers of applications are humming along, performing crucial tasks for the business processes of enterprises even though they were built with technology that comes from ...

An application that was written for an earlier operating system or hardware platform. For example, mainframe applications were legacy apps when the world embraced client/server networks. Windows 3.1 ...

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Most enterprises’ tech stacks are a far cry from the modern, cloud-based nirvana they’d wish to achieve. According to a study from Avanade, nearly a third of all enterprise applications are considered ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Well looks like I need to bust another myth about Vista not being able to run legacy applications. Mary Jo Foley writes that Virtual PC might theoretically give Vista a way to run all those legacy ...

Application modernization startup OpenLegacy Inc. has raised $20 million to help it pursue its mission of helping financial services companies move their information technology infrastructures into ...

Legacy IT systems were developed for - and still run - about 60% of all mission-critical applications. They are still stable and reliable. However, the maintenance on legacy applications over time has ...

Software applications in business fit into three categories. The first category contains applications that work but are not core to the business. The second category contains application that more or ...

You need to buy an airline ticket. So you check the availability and fares online, book a ticket, and pay via your credit card. Ever wondered which technology processes and recognizes your online ...

Legacy applications are one of the most difficult issues to face within IT. A rip-and-replace approach is expensive, difficult to cost-justify and tends to interrupt business. Meanwhile, the legacy ...