The Distinguished Professionals Of IBM i
February 17, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan
We use the term legacy a lot in the IBM midrange and mainframe markets, and not necessarily in the good way we talk about political leaders or business executives or sports stars all leaving a legacy behind of their body of work. I use the term when it means something precise – legacy applications, for instance, are the ones that originated back in time and that have not been modernized in any substantial way because perhaps they don’t need to be.
I prefer the term vintage when I am talking about hardware and software releases because that conveys a …
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