I guess you could say this is a form of technical debt, or technical stubbornness. I used to work for a company that specialized in Solar Panel data. I was hir

I guess you could say this is a form of technical debt, or technical stubbornness. I used to work for a company that specialized in Solar Panel data. I was hired to help the company catch up on their client queue (those waiting for the product to be set up).. and when I first started they were behind by about 140 clients and I had gotten the client queue down to about 30 clients remaining. So our company would sell solar panels to corporations, and then they would put kiosks in the lobbys of their buildings so their clients could come take a look at the energy savings and other information about the building. It was a very popular way of doing things, especially in cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Well, my job was actually designing the graphics for what was displayed on those kiosks and then syncing the data with the graphics. There was a platform that did the work, but I still had to design the graphics and type in all the serial and model numbers and all that to sync everything together and make it show it in chart form in a gorgeous view. Anyways, for years, it was being done in Flash. Unfortunately, as progressive and dominant as our company was -- at one time, their technology was the best, even having received several awards. Over the years, HTML5, JSON, and other technologies were better and faster -- and could read data from a database just like as our system could, but turnaround time for production was faster for others. It took about 1 week for us to develop, set up, and sync everything from system to database. Now these other companies were able to get everything done in days, rather than a week or more. I think a huge part of the problem was my company had these corporations interested but forgot to hire enough people to actually do the work. We did have an in-house software developer working on improving this technology, upgrading the software, but they seemed very reluctant to adapt the new software quickly. I had worked in the new software for a few days, and then all of a sudden, they called me into an office, and laid me off. A few months later, everyone else followed, and today, I think the company only holds on to about 2 or 3 employees who just maintain all the kiosks and software because of the existing contracts. Or maybe they went under... their website doesn't even work anymore. Why did they go under? We were warned that technology was changing fast and that we needed to do something about it... and it was just the reluctance of the CEO to adapt the technology and push it out faster. Our competition slaughtered us. Luckily, it was my second job, so I worked out a great deal with them on letting me go.. I got about a month of vacation time on the condition that I wouldn't go file for unemployment. Obviously, already having another job, it worked out in my favor.