[prosaic-hacker]

>>There are an amazing number of "business critical" applications that are running ancient libraries, protocols, etc.

Do you know of any examples of these "walking wounded" applications? Can we bring some attention to reduce their foot print.

[Bender]

I would have to get former coworkers to dig through Jira. I would not bother. These are all proprietary applications supported by dead or dying companies. Most of the original developers are retired or no longer with us. The apps get picked up by acquiring companies rinse and repeat when they chapter 11.

More useful is finding newer, supported and open source applications that can replace their functionality but that's a whole other topic around prioritization and people paralyzed by fear of change due to the amounts of money flowing through their unsupported applications.