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Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app by Shivetya on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:41PM (#19155481)
I have seen it in ill fated attempts to replace POS systems that were old green screen types to warehousing stocking tools using the same all with new pretty GUI or web page interfaces. Looking slick is great if customer facing but down in the trenches its all about familiarity, speed, and stability.
Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app by anitil on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:24PM (#19157721)
One pet peeve of mine is that these old systems are often trivially navigable with a (often custom) keyboard, then replaced with something that needs a mouse.

So 'tap, tap, tap, tap, enter' becomes 'tap, <locate mouse> click, tap, tap <locate mouse>, click'.