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 ...

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 ...

For many businesses, legacy app migrations are becoming an increasingly important issue when they examine their technology portfolios. But this is often easier said than done. Legacy apps have become ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This content has been created by the Finextra editorial team with inputs from subject matter experts at the funding sponsor. Incumbent banks that have made long-term commitments to legacy ...

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 ...

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 ...