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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by tonyedgecombe on Saturday May 11, 2019 @03:44AM (#19885094)
You can't avoid upgrading forever though, eventually your legacy technology will stop getting security updates and support. Then you are tasked with a huge leap from old to new.

I suspect corporates don't really want to get stuck with so much legacy, they just don't know how to avoid it.

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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by oaiey on Saturday May 11, 2019 @06:51AM (#19885563)
That is right. That is the balance I mentioned. In our teams we try to update the base framework every year to avoid locking us out of the innovation in language and library ecosystem. But a UI stack for example you do not migrate without explicit funding.
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