But legacy has a different connotation in the contemporary hi-tech world:

As Moore's Law took hold, a virtuous circle in technology and know-how was created in a supercharged environment already ripe for a consumer driven revolution. It goes something like this: at a truly dynamic juncture, only those at the very tip of using and developing the new technologies grok the nuts and bolts of creating the widgets that drive the next generation of products while Consumers, used to demanding innovation with their pocketbooks, gobble up these gadgets but only when they are priced below a certain point, are bulletproof, and easy-to-use,.

The big players on the Yinny East Coast, IBM and DEC, had grown fat milking the corporate and government acquisition process with the attendant locked-in, bloated profit margins. As consumers came rushing in with their very different needs and expectations, these legacy dinosaurs fell by their own weight to the wayside.

Legacy Systems

There is also a concept of legacy systems. IBM, at its dominating height, was a legacy company, Microsoft is already a legacy company. Legacy companies own lots of turf so that more and more of their energies are used to keep their rivals off of it. Whenever they innovate they face the possibility of creating competition for their own products. And since they don't like to compete with themselves, even when they manage to attract the best and the brightest they tend to sit on inventions and patents defensively rather than exploit them. Xerox was renowned for having the best R&D group in America and yet the company never successfully brought any of the many key innovations of the PC Revolution --like networked PC's or the MAC-like interface-- developed at Xerox PARC to market. Meanwhile, the company even lost its dominance in copiers.

One sure sign of a legacy companies is a CEO taking the stage and urging his employees to load up on the very stock he is sloughing off. Legacy CEO's stack their boards of directors and staffs with sycophants who have learned to advance by keeping their mouths shut and going along with the program.

Legacy companies buy market share through bad fitting mergers: remember Time Warner and AOL.
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Já com vários anos no activo. Uma sugestão

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PressThink: PressThink's Top Ten Ideas for 2004: Introduction - [ Traduzir esta página ]Legacy companies are often the ones that cannot adapt to changes in a world they once easily dominated. The world that is passing not only made fortunes for ...
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OU: velha empresa (mas penso que dá uma conotação negativa)

Executive Digest: Edição Nº 79 Gestão PráticaCom uma combinação entre novas e velhas empresas e, geralmente, baixas barreiras à entrada, muitas indústrias acabarão por assistir ao aumento do número de ...
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Se tiver espaço, o ideal seria "empresa de/com tradição no mercado", porque uma "empresa tradicional" PODE eventualmente ser associada a uma empresa "antiquada".

Fica difícil sugerir sem mais contexto.

Seria necessário maior contexto aí, mas me parece que neste caso legacy está sendo usado no sentido de uma empresa antiga adquirida por outra como parte de um negócio mais amplo.