14 DAY TRIAL // Companies that are looking for solutions to easily migrate legacy Visual Basic 6.0 applications into the Cloud should have a look at what ArtinSoft and Gizmox have to offer. The two companies announced a partnership designed to put together a range of migration services designed to help customers upgrade Visual Basic 6.0 programs to Dynamic HTML, to Silverlight 3, and even to Microsoft’s Windows Azure Cloud operating system. Steve Sklepowich, director for Silverlight at Microsoft, applauded the new partnership between ArtinSoft and Gizmox, indicating that the Redmond-based company welcomes the initiative that will permit the growth of Silverlight-based apps.
"Microsoft is pleased to support the new partnership between ArtinSoft and Gizmox," Sklepowich noted. "This partnership will equip developers and businesses with the tools they need to cost-effectively move their Visual Basic 6.0 and Windows Forms applications to Silverlight 3, enabling a new class of rich Internet applications on the Web."
According to ArtinSoft and Gizmox, the best thing about their joint solution to migrate legacy Visual Basic 6.0 applications into the Cloud is the fact that companies will be able to build upon existing investments, rather than having to develop new projects from scratch. For the migration itself, customers will need to leverage ArtinSoft's migration tools and services, as well as Gizmox’s Visual WebGui development framework.
"We are excited to enter into a partnership with Artinsoft that finally brings customers running legacy Visual Basic applications an e-2-e solution that wasn't available before," added Navot Peled, CEO and founder of Gizmox.
Migrating VB 6.0 apps into the Cloud will start with the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion from ArtinSoft. The Companion is perfectly capable of turning VB 6.0 legacy code into .NET code. In this regard, customers will be able to run the resulting .Net code on the Visual WebGui platform. With the programs in .NET, one more step, via the WebGui platform developed by Gizmox, will be sufficient to port the code to the web, namely to Dynamic HTML, Silverlight 3, the latest release of Silverlight, and to Windows Azure, ArtinSoft and Gizmox explained.
"This is a great opportunity for enterprise customers to move their application away from the desktop and make them available without deployment limitations," noted Roberto Leiton, ArtinSoft's CEO. "It is something the market has been requesting for a while, and the combination of the Visual WebGui platform with our migration expertise is the best value proposition for our customers."