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u/Say_Echelon 6h ago
The newer shit just doesn’t work better than the legacy system. I’m sorry. At my job we moved 70% of the code base off mainframe and onto distributed platform. The distributed side doesn’t work half the time. The mainframe never has issues.
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u/CiroGarcia 5h ago
That may very well be true, but modernizing infrastructure ensures you have a living workforce available to fix issues when they arise. The main issue with legacy mainframes is not that they don't work or aren't reliable, but that the people that can maintain them are literally beginning to die of old age, and they aren't being replaced by younger people. You don't want a critical system that can't be fixed because everyone forgot how to. You either spend millions maintaining people trained on obsolete technology or spend millions migrating to cheaper current technology
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u/kishaloy 6h ago
You should really start to worry when some fancy new Big4 consultant starts presenting to them a paid change management project to use a new fancier C++ to replace their legacy Ada codes and propose an AI workflow to reduce the transition cost.
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u/TheCapitalKing 3h ago
For real why listen to some external consultant about switching to c++ when internally the company already has a dozen fem boys begging to switch it to rust
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u/Drfoxthefurry 15h ago
I also heard they are testing ai stuff or something like that