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by laichzeit0 4088 days ago
> Additionally the pace of .NET doesn't matter, because the enterprise is dog slow to upgrade.

In some cases they will never upgrade. I'm talking about places still running WebLogic 8 and JVM 1.4.2. Huge business critical production systems. They'll probably still run on that exact stack for the next 5 years at the very minimum. Everything new gets written in whatever the new stack is, that old stack just stays there, forever.

The strange world of mega corp enterprise IT.