Migrating old SQL Servers I found myself in a rather complex situation and need some advice...

We are moving our complete environment to a new Server and virtual servers.

I have reached a point where i found out that some of the old Servers (2000 and 2003) that I wanted to dispose contain Databases which are required for some of our (old but essential) software packages. These contain hardcoded data about these old servers and cannot be altered, so i'm stuck with them.

I wonder if there is a way to create a virtual name/path or sth on the new server, so i could move the old databases there, but while this is done, the software still needs to recognize them by their old name. For example - old database in on old server STHSRV1/name1 or STHSRV2/name2, and i want both of these to be on the new server, but accessible through their old names.

Is this even possible?

Thanks everyone
Would creating an alias be any use to you?