[heathlilley]

This is similar to a realization I had a few years ago about my own career and training. I got it in my head that my company should provide training to use the newest technologies for their benefit. It only took a few years of the "it's not broken so don't fix it" culture to realize they don't care how it works, as long as it works. And that I am responsible for my own growth. The cost is using my own free time and resources, the value (aside from learning) is that I get to choose what I will learn, hello JQuery/Ruby/MongoDB/Heroku.

TLDR: Growing on your own is more fun and enriching than being dependent on others.

[paulhauggis]

This may be true. But, if you have a site running with older technology, I wouldn't want to use new technology just for the sake of using new technology.

When something works, why take the risk? Especially if it involves money.

[heathlilley]

I agree, that is why it's up to the developer to improve their skills if they don't want to keep writing Action classes and POJO JDBC classes for that legacy Struts 1.1 webapp.