by DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 17, 2014 4:01:00 AM
Microsoft said they'd end support for Windows XP and they went and did it. A lot of people thought they'd delay it yet again, but this time it's real. No …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Feb 18, 2014 4:02:00 PM
Windows XP is out of support on April 9, 2014. That’s less than 7 weeks away and the clock is ticking. We know that increasing complexity of business environments, higher …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jan 21, 2014 4:27:00 PM
I'm sure it's not news to you that manual app rewrites don't have the best success record. In fact, more fail than succeed. We've dug into the research a little …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 21, 2013 10:50:00 AM
We all know that legacy code is expensive to keep around: Developers who know VB, PowerBuilder, COBOL, RPG and can actually figure out your app's source code and fix/maintain/improve it …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 8, 2013 11:46:00 AM
I don't think there's any debate that software is about as complex as anything on the planet; since the dawn of the computer in the 1940s people as diverse as …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Oct 2, 2013 3:44:00 PM
Windows XP is out of support April 9, 2014. Last day of support is April 8, 2014 There are 189 days from Oct. 1, 2014 to Apr. 8, 2014 Including …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Aug 29, 2013 1:35:00 PM
Driving home yesterday I heard a story on All Things Considered about overflowing sewers in Miami. Since my college studies in microbiology had made me familiar with what actually happens …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jul 31, 2013 4:06:00 PM
OpenSignal just released a great rundown on Android fragmentation. Summary: bad and getting worse. This is a cool graphic (you can compare 2013 to 2012). I urge you to click …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 3, 2013 6:00:00 AM
As it happens we talk to a LOT of people who want to modernize their legacy client/server apps. So we get a certain amount of unscientific survey data about what …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 29, 2013 1:43:00 PM
On August 24, 2013, I'll be celebrating a wedding and Windows XP will be wearing a party hat for its 12th birthday. Almost 40% of desktops are still running Windows …
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