[ethermal]

I don't get this line of thinking. Do you know there are programs written on system/36 machines from the early eighties still in production today on ibm iSeries machines? And even older software/systems in place that are older then that. Business requirements don't change hourly/weekly/monthly. If the business requirement that existed at that point in time, that the software solution put in place at that time met those requirements why would a business be compelled to change if those requirements have not changed and the solution met those needs? I've been a developer a really long time, 25+ years professionally. Businesses demand stability, this absolutely absurd idea that software that is only a few years old must be thrown out and some new flashy unproven shit put in its place is mind boggling. The last job I put a bid on, one of the requirements was that the software in initial form be supported for a minimum of 10 years. And in my experience that is a short life span.