Underestimated Cost Trap: Why archiving legacy systems is almost always worthwhile!

It's not just the hardware and software costs that often make legacy systems very expensive. Many types of costs are not immediately obvious but play a significant role. In our projects on archiving legacy systems, we have compiled a comprehensive list of known costs. This list makes it clear that archiving is almost always worthwhile, especially if data needs to remain accessible and searchable for many years. Here are the most important cost factors that we have repeatedly identified: