Migration Articles

• A Business Case for Migration presents the bottom line business case for migration.

• GM Methodology Overview provides an overview of our methodology and its benefits.

• Translation Myth Busters discusses the problems commonly associated with automated software translation and how Great Migrations products and our tool-assisted rewrite methodology address these challenges.

• Comparing Migration Methodologies Article introduces the concepts of a software migration project and compares a "manual rewrite" approach to a "high-yield-tool-assisted migration" approach.

• Code Restructuring describes how we allow you to customize the replacement of COM components and controls during a migration.

• Custom Language Replacement describes how we allow you to customize the replacement of VB6 language elements during a migration.

• BMW Financial Services VB6-to-C# Migration Case Study gives the history of how BMWFS developed and applied a strategy for tool-assisted migration.

• Code Quality describes how we measure and achieve code quality in our migrations.

Videos 

• VIDEO: Channel 9 Interview with Founder describes our product, our methodology, and our history.

• VIDEO: Introduction to gmStudio screencast demonstrates gmStudio in the context of a small multi-VBP migration.

• VIDEO: ASP and VB6 Site Migration screencast demonstrates gmStudio in the context of a multi-VBP and ASP web site migration.

Technology Papers 

• Design of a FORTRAN to C Translator describes the design of gmFortran, a Fortran-to-C compiler/translator.  Many of the principles used in the implementation of gmFortran are also applied in gmBasic, the translation engine that powers gmStudio.

• gmBasic Product Overview describes gmBasic, our VB6/ASP/COM to .NET translation tool.

• Introduction to gmBasic Technology walks the reader through two sample VB6 and ASP migrations using gmBasic.

• gmBasic Technical FAQ answers some of the common questions about gmBasic.

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