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I can't approve of that attitude. Why not? Most companies that end up with that kind of hardcore legacy code a) refuse to upgrade on a reasonable basis and b)

• nostalgiac 11y ago
  I agree. If the company has pidgeon holed themselves into the situation, they clearly have the 2 options you stated, and that should not reflect poorly on the original author.
• prawn 11y ago
  This is in health/medical and the employee in question is nearing retirement. I'd like to think that he should be encouraging them to consider a succession plan ahead of time to minimise risk for the thousands of people likely to be effected by this. There's a good chance, from my understanding of the situation, that his managers don't understand the situation as well as he does. I think he should think bigger than himself. Management's decisions are unlikely to be budget related.