[Info-vax] RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[Kerry Main]

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> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS
> Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)
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> On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:48:34 PM UTC+12, David Froble wrote:
> >
> > Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> >
> >> Hands up all those who think RMS should die already...
> >
> > Perhaps you are ready to re-write billions of dollars of existing
> software?
> 
> This is the point I brought up before, about discounted cost versus total
> cost. As every new headache with the legacy technology appears, it is
> cheaper to spend that small fortune on patching it up, rather than a large
> fortune on getting rid of it. After a while, all those small fortunes add up
> to much more than the large fortune. And you are still stuck with the
> legacy technology.
> 
> > Why cannot the old and new co-exist?
> 
> The new technology does not have the problem adapting to the old, it is
> the old technology that has trouble adapting to the new.
> 

"New" technology does not necessarily mean "better". 

What is so often over looked with "new technology" is that there is 
always a period of bugs, tweaks, unforeseen challenges & workarounds
that the early adopter has to address.

In addition, techie marketing hype touting the "benefits" of new tech 
often overlooks the challenges of highly customized & rock solid business 
logic integrated with the "old" code. 

That rock solid business logic is where the real added value of IT exists &
Is often supported by more junior resources who do simple tweaks, but 
in no way would they pretend that they could re-write the business logic 
using some form of "cool" new technology.

The marketing hype will often tout the expense of hiring resources to
maintain the code so will spend $10M+ in a major redo of the application
that takes 2+ years  (often freezing current state enhancements) in order 
to save the cost of simply paying their current resources a bit more or 
hiring resources at more than what they would get at other companies.

Smarter companies have woken up to the hype and are now looking
at "upgrade-and-integrate" strategies vs. "rip-and-replace".


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com