Legacy Application Modernization: Key Steps, Benefits & Best Practices
This blog post was co-authored with Riaz Merchant, President and CEO at Mertech. In the fast-paced software world, 'legacy' often signals a warning.
Magic eDeveloper advertises multi-dbms support through “gateways”. You design the app once and simply configure the backend gateway to one of many. However, if the application is designed for ISAM (Btrieve), then getting it to run against a SQL backend has many challenges.
In summary, it is possible to have an application that can target Btrieve and SQL gateways. But there will be duplication in various repositories and extra logic to handle this.
And for an application that has been around a while without a thought for SQL before, the effort to convert and then continue maintenance on will be quite heavy.
This blog post was co-authored with Riaz Merchant, President and CEO at Mertech. In the fast-paced software world, 'legacy' often signals a warning.
This post was co-authored with Riaz Merchant, President/CEO at Mertech Data Systems, Inc.
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