3 ms·
Who gets to define broke? How about the tax dollars paying for legacy equipment, legacy labor, etc? How about the lack of an uprade path and current limitations
by drzaiusapelord 12y ago
Who gets to define broke? How about the tax dollars paying for legacy equipment, legacy labor, etc? How about the lack of an uprade path and current limitations being permanent?
I inherited a system from a guy with this mentality. I had a rack of 12 year old Solaris boxes in production running software almost as old. It was a complete nightmare. Part of things not being "broke" is making sure they work well into the future as well. You're just building up a massive technical debt with a "aint broke" mentality.
- emodendroket 12y agoSomething like air traffic control has a much, much higher potential cost for software bugs than most applications do and, unfortunately, that also means a much slower upgrade cycle.