Global perspectives on legacy systems

The two workshops discussed here were held roughly a year apart, at international conferences meeting in the UK. The first workshop (the seventh in the SEBPC legacy series) was held on 30 August 1999 in Oxford, at the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), which attracts a mostly technical participation, from software engineering academics and from industrial practitioners and consultants. The second workshop (the eleventh legacy workshop) was held on 4 July 2000 in Stafford, at the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, a more mixed collection of computing and business academics (but no industrialists). Roughly 15 people attended the first workshop, from 3 countries 13 academics and 2 industrialists; 9 of these were connected with SEBPC, 6 were not. In the case of the second workshop, 12 attended in total, from 5 countries (all academics); 5 were connected with SEBPC, 7 were not.