Systems Integrators & Channel Partners - Legacy App Modernisation

Interesting few days at AWS Summit London. Nice to catch up spontaneously with Neil Davidson, Sean R Turner (did your kit turn up?!) Akanksha Sheoran, and chat to Rahulkrishnan R A among many other good folks. (People are excited about this new fangled AI thing, huh?) For all the ins-and-outs of AI economics, of Opus-throttling Anthropic machinations, of ongoing hallucination challenges, and so on, there seems to have been a step-change since late last year in the ability of language models to support with application modernisation, complex migrations and more. We'd like to spend more time on this at The Stack, hear your lessons/takeaways and share them more broadly. #journorequest #tech #techpr (maybe?) So... if you, your team, your #channel partner, your systems integrator (whomsoever it might be) has been grappling with a funky #Sybase modernisation project (untangling nests of stored procedures manually, or using AI), migrating a legacy #Oracle-based application to #Aurora; or ruing/triumphing in your effort to get a #COBOL-based system onto an x86-based private cloud, we want to talk to you! Just email me with "old wine" in the subject bar. ed at thestack dot technology On the subject of Summits... Our own one in NYC was such good fun, we're doing it again in London in November. Want to get involved? We're building out the talk tracks now. At least one is going to have an Apache Iceberg flavour (data swamps, open standards, and yes, probably AI...) We're not offering more than three sponsorship opportunities either, so if you want to be one, ditto; DM me. We're also starting monthly, very very very informal "Sessions" meetups, with informal panel discussion, beverages, chewing the fat. On May 26th, we're talking AI and attack surface management/defence with hacker-turned-founder Chris Wallis + special guests and in June (date TBC) we're talking sovereignty and OSS, etc. Thanks to eSentire and Intruder for sponsoring the first. Drinks are on us. Members get a 75% discount on tickets. p.s. A highlight of AWS Summit? Someone (very lovely) on a comms team saying their executives won't talk to us as we're seen as too high risk (we might ask pointed questions). Sorry you feel that way, but I wear it as a badge of honour. I honestly don't feel we're sharp enough and want to keep building out editorial so we get more and more probing. It would be really easy to win loads of SaaS company engagement by uncritically and lightly reformatting press releases ("wow! you have an MCP server now too? SO COOL!") but then, who'd give a shit, right?