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Sorry, I did not realize you meant to create a new software from scratch. I thought you were talking about supporting/extending/refactoring this old pile of mad

Sorry, I did not realize you meant to create a new software from scratch. I thought you were talking about supporting/extending/refactoring this old pile of madness. Thanks for the clarification! I suppose you were referring to the statement "Customers in that space don't have many options". Your statement is reasonable and there might be market opportunities to create new software. But I somehow have the feeling that it would take a tremendous amount of time to recreate something that checks the same boxes as the old system. But I do not work in that sector so my judgement might be totally off.

pmarreck 8y ago
Thing is, a competing product does not (at launch) have to match the entrenched one feature-for-feature. It just has to tick the MOST IMPORTANT boxes while being advantageous in other ways (such as being built on FAR newer tech, more reliable etc.)
- vmchale 8y ago
  Being built on newer tech isn't an advantage from a customer POV. It's only an advantage when the newer tech is better, and tbh I have a hard time believing that you'd match the performance and security of a mainframe that easily.
  - le-mark 8y ago
    Being an order of magnitude cheaper would be compelling to these same companies though.