Thoughts
Welcome to our weekly perspectives on legacy systems,
migration risk, and the real cost of waiting.
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Week 1
Your FoxPro database is older than Google. Here's why that matters this week.
Short · 17 Jun 2026
I wrote RPG in 1989. Here's what that means when I walk into your server room today.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Week 2
Everyone's telling you to rewrite everything. They're almost certainly wrong.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Week survived. Five questions that reveal your actual legacy risk. Be honest.
Short · 17 Jun 2026
Week 3
Your AS/400 is held together by three people. One just turned 62. What's your plan?
Short · 17 Jun 2026
The Retiring Owner: 25 years of customer data, a buyer who needed modern systems, and 90 days to make it work.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Week 4
The AS/400 is still powering global supply chains in 2026. Most people have no idea.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Month 1 done. Which of these felt uncomfortably familiar?
Short · 17 Jun 2026
Week 5
What does a municipal council and a ticking clock have in common? Full story on Friday.
Short · 17 Jun 2026
The Access Timebomb: What we found inside a council's 23-year-old database - and why the most dangerous part wasn't the software.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Week 6
The real cost of your legacy system isn't the support contract. It's everything you can't build on top of it.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Six years past end of vendor support. Still running. One question.
Short · 17 Jun 2026
Week 7
A COBOL developer. A regulatory notice. 18 months. The clock is already running.
Short · 17 Jun 2026
What we extracted from 40 years of undocumented COBOL - before the developer retired.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Week 8
Stop calling it technical debt. Your legacy system is an asset with a known risk profile.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Month 2 done. Which scenario felt a little too close to home?
Short · 17 Jun 2026
Week 9
What would it actually cost to migrate your system? Three factors drive most of the answer.
Short · 17 Jun 2026
The Bridge, Not the Burn: Why we told a manufacturer not to migrate their AS/400. Not yet.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Week 10
I've been inside enough legacy systems to know what they all have in common. It's not the code.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Your legacy system has a risk score. Takes four minutes to find out what it is.
Short · 17 Jun 2026
Week 11
The most expensive migration is the one that happens after the crisis.
Short · 17 Jun 2026
The Embedded Controller: When the machinery is worth more than the building it's in - and the computer running it no longer exists.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Week 12
Three months in. Here's what we've actually learned.
Long · 17 Jun 2026
Quarter 1 done. Is your legacy system still running? For how much longer?
Short · 17 Jun 2026