Resistence is Futile ... You will be Translated
Well, your COBOL legacy Applications will be translated
Various reports suggest that the COBOL code base is still growing between 3 to 5% per year. The past Legacy modernization projects have only touched the tip of the iceburg.
The modernization projects to-date has mostly started due to an immediate "necessity" such as business process changes. In this situation, where budgets allowed, it made sense to re-document, extract the rules, re-design and rewrite. My company - SoftwareMining we also produce business rule extraction tools for this market. But in this discussion, I want to focus on Translations.
As I said, I think we have just seen tip of the iceberg ...