Read a white paper on Legacy Application Modernization with research from Gartner FreeSoft's vision on legacy database and application modernization featuring a Gartner Research Note. Read this issue to get a better understanding on the future of the pre-relational mainframe DBMS market, its challanges and a possible solution for migrating these legacy systems.

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Do you have a portfolio of legacy applications running on a mainframe? Is your organization running older, 31-bit IBM mainframes? Are you faced with a hardware decision? Are you having problems finding and retaining qualified mainframe engineers? Has the maintenance and enhancement of these applications become expensive, difficult, and time-consuming? Would you like to move to new platforms without losing your large investment in business rules? Do you want to lower your monthly software license costs, or switch from older platforms to one with better price-performance?

Your business processes are strategic assets of your company. These assets are locked away in expensive proprietary systems and application environments which are difficult to integrate into a modern, Service Oriented Architecture. Protecting these assets while freeing them to evolve with innovations in information technology should be a key goal of every CIO.

Modernization is the way to take advantage of new technologies while protecting your application investment and unlocking the potential of legacy data. Modernization also lowers cost and positions your company to better take advantage of new technologies in support of new business requirements.


FreeSoft has been involved in the IT modernization and legacy transformation business since 1998. FreeSoft has built up a line of conversion technologies, project methodologies and processes to understand and transform a great variety of legacy systems into a modern IT environment and a new architecture, while ensuring the lowest risk and cost. Our legacy modernization services enable customers to transform different legacy systems running on heterogonous proprietary platforms, developed in various programming languages with data stored in legacy databases and file systems, into a J2EE environment, SOA based architecture.