Examining Strategies
In the following sections, we examine the various strategies available for a migration effort, including the following:
Refronting
Replacement
Rehosting—technology porting
Rearchitecting—reverse engineering
Interoperation
Retirement
When planning a migration project, consider how your environment could benefit from the strategies described in this section.
Refronting
Many legacy applications have excellent functionality but are not user friendly. Data entry for the application is accomplished by means of a series of screens that frequently contain cryptic names for fields and unintuitive menus, which result from limited screen space. These interfaces were based on CRT technology that was available 20 to 30 years ago.
Rather than ...
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