Well, in three years when the headline is "Baltimore police pay $240M for failed Lotus Notes migration," then I'll click. But sometimes maintaining the legacy s

Well, in three years when the headline is "Baltimore police pay $240M for failed Lotus Notes migration," then I'll click. But sometimes maintaining the legacy system is the lesser of evils, especially in government systems. We built a custom management system for a state agency here 10 years ago. The state still pays us around $40k/year in associated improvements, changes based on new legislation, reports, etc. Far less than paying $1M-$2M to rebuild the thing, or more. Total cost of ownership for the system is ridiculously low, all things considered. And yeah, it's written on some old crufty PHP, but it still does the job and they use it every day.