Well there's this fashion of dumping 50+ IT guys. The systems they worked on will then stagger on. The new guys will throw on patches, but there's no money to r

Well there's this fashion of dumping 50+ IT guys. The systems they worked on will then stagger on. The new guys will throw on patches, but there's no money to really understand the system. The life support just gets more and more expensive. The smart way to migrate a legacy system is to keep your maintenance crew to retirement age. Once they're approaching retirement bring in some kids to migrate to the shiny new tech and use the old crew to make sure they don't drop stuff.