Both companies were hoping that at some point users would migrate to OS/2.
The concept behind Cyber 80 was that current 6000-series users would migrate to these machines with relative ease.
AL/1 enables users to analyse and migrate mainframe-based Cobol data to personal computers.
By 1987, the users of the Bitnic Listserv had migrated to Thomas' version.
Microsoft recommends "that users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari."
As users migrate from dial-up modems to high-speed connections, Web sites will need to invest in new technologies to serve them.
After Honeywell stopped supporting Multics, users migrated to other systems, including Unix.
So, users can migrate between terminal types, from a proprietary to an open environment or from a terminal to client-server environment as required.
Then users can either take it or leave it, and will gradually migrate, often unwittingly.
Somewhat later, as suitably performing hardware was finally becoming available in the mid to late-1980s, many users migrated their applications to the personal computer environment.