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For over a decade, boardrooms have framed legacy modernization as a binary choice between rip-and-replace (expensive, high-risk and often catastrophic) or lift-and-shift (safe, but you're just ...

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While NASA navigates rovers across Mars with the help of AI, federal agencies continue to process critical operations on COBOL — a programming language that predates the first moon landing by a decade ...