Insight
Legacy systems are kept out of habit as often as out of need.
The points that matter
- Calculate the real annual cost: downtime, support and manual work.
- Check whether the vendor still supports it.
- Compare against a phased migration, not a big-bang rewrite.
Our view
Age alone is not a reason to replace a system — support ending is. Once the vendor stops patching, the risk rises every month you wait, and delaying the decision quietly becomes the expensive option.
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