Technology, the way we do business and the world around us have all changed but for some firms, they’re still dealing with 20-year old systems running on COBOL maintained by a “graying” resource pool of technicians.

However, like a breath of fresh air, people are finally talking about Mainframe Migration and the need for legacy modernization – and they’re saying all the right things.

Sophisticated Business Systems: “We see excitement for migration from the older legacy platforms to newer technologies. The market is citing improved agility, lower costs, higher performance and more robust IT environments that the Microsoft platform provides.”

Fujitsu Consulting: “Our clients continue to wrestle with significant legacy application maintenance costs and a steady decline of readily available mainframe resources.”

Fujitsu Software: “We’re seeing that the market’s starting to tip toward mainframe migrations to Windows. The performance/cost ratios of Windows Server 2003 and added agility of Microsoft .NET make that move extremely desirable.”

Mainframe Migration? The Mainframe Migration Alliance? At Windows in Financial Services, we decided an in-depth look was in order. We assembled industry experts, starting with Gartner’s Dale Vecchio, and interviewed senior executives from some of the vendor firms deeply committed to migration and legacy modernization.