Edward Hieatt
On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Everything Edward Hieatt said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hieatt: Over half of mainframe migrations fail during reintegration
“Why I say more than half the efforts fail. It's not the translation so much. It's more the putting it all together. And does it still work? And how do you cut over from old to new up with a big bang, a huge risk fingers are crossed.”
Hieatt: Mechanical Orchard AI generates provably equivalent legacy rewrites
“So you end up with the AI agentic flow converging on a solution that's really good, clean, human readable code, and is provably equivalent to the old system.”
Hieatt: Competitors Misapply AI To Brute-Force Legacy Code Translation
“Almost all the players in the market are applying AI to that same approach. Right, so they're taking some approach of effectively brute force and applying AI to help the translation.”
Hieatt: Agentic AI Shifts Will Be Bigger Than Cloud Computing
“I think there's a big thing happening here. I really do. I think the agentic notion is, is a huge move forward, you know, as big or bigger than, say, cloud.”
Hieatt: Gartner Estimates 250B to 750B Lines of Active Production COBOL
“There's an estimate from Gartner that there are between 257 hundred and fifty billion lines of COBOL in the world running in production, right? If you can imagine, like, some dollar per line of code fee on average, right, that, that's a big term.”
Hieatt: Less than half of GV portfolio companies use Google Cloud
“I think GV's investments are actually, Less than half actually use Google Cloud, so it's not like they lock us into, to Google.”
Hieatt: Small Software Startups Cannot Scale Enterprise Deals Without Aligned Services Partners
“You know, we're not going to go and win these big enterprise deals solo. We'll win some, but we're not going to scale that way. And so having, in the case of a small product company, having an important services partner that understands the vision, that really…”
Hieatt: Patents Clarify a Startup's True Technical Differentiation to Customers
“I've actually been asked by partners and customers, like, what is it that you've patented, right? And they're looking not to, I don't know, take over your idea, but rather, like, what's really special about you? They really want to, and the patent can be a goo…”
Hieatt: 70% of Fortune 2000 Companies Run Mainframes for Core Business
“70% of the Fortune 2000 run a mainframe for something core to their business.”
Hieatt: 91 of Top 100 Global Banks Rely on Mainframes
“91 of the top hundred banks in the world by size do as well for core banking, right?”
Hieatt: Mechanical Orchard Spent Two Years Manually Migrating 1960s Mainframe System
“Our first customer, we went in as a set of developers, and we attempted the approach manually, and what happens, right? And we spent two years there, right, doing that manually, and we had amazing success, right? So they have now, at the end of that process, t…”
Hieatt: Pivotal Labs Never Solved Modernizing 1960s–1970s Mainframe Systems
“But this problem of the very oldest, you know, I'm talking about systems from the sixties, seventies we never really cracked that at pivotal. So he wanted to come back to that and revisit it and make a company just about that, dedicated to that problem of mode…”
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