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> This was forgivable 30 years ago. A lot of the mainframe systems running large organisations were written more than 30 years ago and are still the core of th
by altacc 7y ago
> This was forgivable 30 years ago.
A lot of the mainframe systems running large organisations were written more than 30 years ago and are still the core of the business, so their limitations are the constraints everyone else works around.
> Someone could have demonstrated leadership and developed a ten year plan to fix their legacy problem then.
The large project I work on is 12 years into replacing the mainframe platforms which have run the business for 45+ years, and we're not even halfway through the portfolio. Do not underestimate the complexity of these mainframes and the time & cost needed to fully replace them.
- imtringued 7y agoWe have a legacy database at our company that we simply wrapped with a service. There are still a lot of clients that access the database directly but that number is shrinking. Limitations of the database can be worked around in the service layer so it wouldn't matter to us if we still use the original database in 10 years but it also wouldn't matter if we just migrate it to postgres one day.