Many an intergalactic sci-fi flick has showcased the “instant translator” — the clever box that makes earthling speech intelligible to alpha-centaurians, and vice versa. Now something similar is helping Australian organizations bring legacy applications and enterprise knowledge up to date. Perhaps the analogy with the instant translator is inexact. A sci-fi instant translator would operate as a kind of middleware; this new kind of translation is more about total “transformation” — turning earthlings into alpha-centaurians.
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Saving Legacy Systems with Automated Software Transformation
Posted by: David Halperin February 12, 2004 10:12 AMMany an intergalactic sci-fi flick has showcased the “instant translator” — the clever box that makes earthling speech intelligible to alpha-centaurians, and vice versa. Now something similar is helping Australian organizations bring legacy applications and enterprise knowledge up to date. Perhaps the analogy with the instant translator is inexact. A sci-fi instant translator would operate as a kind of middleware; this new kind of translation is more about total “transformation” — turning earthlings into alpha-centaurians.