by DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 27, 2026, 9:34:23 AM

GAP analyzes 1,105 inquiries from 120+ countries and publishes the full counts and methodology AUSTIN, Texas, August 27, 2026. GAPVelocity AI, the AI modernization business of Growth Acceleration Partners, today …

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Topics:VB6.NET

by DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 25, 2026, 7:07:12 PM

We looked at 1,105 modernization inquiries from a twelve-month period. Two-thirds of them named a language that shipped in 1998. The size of the world’s legacy code estate gets estimated …

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Topics:VB6PowerBuilderlegacy modernizationClarionMS Access

by DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 22, 2026, 6:58:02 PM

How many of us wish we could start with a totally clean slate? In our heart of hearts we all wish we could rewrite from scratch all the bad code …

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Topics:VB6AImcpstrangler fig

by DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 19, 2026, 6:50:24 PM

On July 14, the Polly project announced it was adopting the Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF). Polly is the core resilience library that handles retries, circuit breakers, hedging, timeouts, and …

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Topics:.NETopen source softwareOSMF

by Oscar Poveda, on Aug 15, 2026, 10:23:32 AM

Every engineering team modernizing a legacy application has already run the experiment. Someone pastes a VB6 module, a PowerBuilder datawindow, or a .clw file from Clarion into a chat window …

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Topics:Application ModernizationVB6PowerBuilderlegacy modernizationClarionAgentic AI

by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Aug 9, 2026, 12:00:00 AM

Most conversations about PowerBuilder modernization start with age. The platform is old, the vendor support is thinning, the developer pool is shrinking. All true, and all beside the point. Age …

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Topics:PowerBuilderVELO

by DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 4, 2026, 7:06:29 PM

The July 2026 Visual Studio update added something super cool: built-in skills, authored by the .NET and Azure teams, that appear in the Copilot tool picker whenever the matching workload …

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Topics:Application ModernizationVisual StudioCopilotagentic modernization

by Rodrigo Rodriguez, on Aug 1, 2026, 10:01:06 AM

When building autonomous modernization agents capable of re-architecting enterprise applications, parsing massive codebases, and translating legacy patterns into modern frameworks, execution time isn't measured in seconds—it's measured in hours. While …

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Topics:AIAgentic AIagentic modernization

by DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 28, 2026, 7:12:37 PM

You’re modernizing. Step one: choose a target platform and prepare to defend it until 2036. When a CTO axes a 400,000-line VB6 monster or a Clinton-era PowerBuilder setup, no one …

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Topics:.NET.NET 8.NET 10.NET 11

by DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 25, 2026, 8:49:13 PM

Here's What Changed In 2002, a tool I helped bring to market started rewriting other people's code. The VB6 Upgrade Wizard shipped inside Visual Studio .NET, built on technology from …

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Topics:Agentic AIagentic modernizationautomated code migration

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