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[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-19 13:04:49 +0000, Kerry Main said:

> "New" technology does not necessarily mean "better".
> What is so often over looked with "new technology" is that there 
> isalways 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 
> techoften overlooks the challenges of highly customized & rock solid 
> businesslogic 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, butin no way would they 
> pretend that they could re-write the business logicusing 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 orderto save the cost of simply paying their current 
> resources a bit more orhiring 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".


Isn't this the flip-side of that "blue ocean" stuff you're fond of pointing at?




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