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The Legacy Conundrum

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Submitted by Steve-Nimmons on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 10:32

 

What to do with legacy COBOL

Legacy applications are often defined as ‘those that work’, but how do you address the issue of modernisation of large COBOL code bases many of which often contain key IPR, are difficult to maintain, lack documentation, have interdependencies and shortage of knowledgeable resources?

There a number of potential approaches to meet the technical and business objectives including ‘stock migration’, COTS replacement, service enablement of legacy, reengineering and ‘lift and drop’. Each has distinct advantages and disadvantages. 

Microsoft BizSpark

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Submitted by Steve-Nimmons on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 10:47
Microsoft is giving away free development tools and server software to start-ups less than three years old. The initiative is called BizSpark. Listen to this podcast from Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president responsible for strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft for further info....
 

Free paper on COBOL Conversion

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Submitted by Steve-Nimmons on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 09:48

Free paper on COBOL Conversion - New download (in pdf format) discussing legacy modernisation options for COBOL.

The Legacy Conundrum [Circumference of a Moose]

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