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Why Legacy Modernization Matters More Than Ever

Brian Foley

The Hidden Cost of Doing Nothing

Every year you wait, your legacy systems become more expensive to maintain, harder to secure, and more difficult to find developers willing to work on them. The talent pool for COBOL, Visual Basic 6, and classic ASP is shrinking — and the developers who remain command premium rates.

The Tipping Point

Most organizations hit a tipping point where the annual maintenance cost of their legacy system exceeds what a full modernization would cost. Yet many don't realize they've crossed that line because the costs are spread across departments — patching here, workarounds there, manual processes everywhere.

A Smarter Approach

Modern AI-assisted development has changed the economics of modernization. What used to take 18 months can now be delivered in 6. Pattern recognition tools can analyze legacy codebases and generate modern equivalents, while human engineers focus on architecture decisions and business logic that requires judgment.

The question isn't whether to modernize — it's whether you can afford not to.