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The 3 Best Approaches to Application Modernization


Tuesday, February 10, 2015 by

Netscape, according to Joel Spolsky in his famous essay Things You Should Never Do, made “…the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.” The wisdom of rewriting legacy systems was a lively topic of debate when Spolsky published his opinions in 2000, and it’s still a topic that inspires arguments no...