Aberdeen Group report on Migrating from VB6 to .NET
Aberdeen Group have created a new report “Migrating from VB6 to .NET: The challenge of software agility in a volatile economy”
Some bits that stood out for me:
- 50% will migrate all the applications, 36% will migrate some (86% in total will migrate)
- “Best in class” understand the importance of external migration services and tools - 30%+ in each category
- 14% of organisations said their entire environment is VB6 based.
- For those who will NOT migrate to VB.NET:
- 62% will migrate to C#
- 10% Other .NET languages
- 16% Java (tut tut)
- 12% Other none .NET