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Re:I no longer build software by tluyben2 on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:02PM (#24546464)
Sure that is true, but then again I have written many of employee directories, cms’s, erps, social networks, running apps, banking fronts and backends, insurance fronts and backends which were all exactly the same except forced in a different tech because of the taste du-jour. We wrote a massive insurance monolith system in c# and my new client wants it microservice and in TS/node. We will be doing exactly the same as 2 years ago and make a boatload of money while we have a working and tested solution. Almost all of this is CRUD with some calc sheets in excel which we did in the 80s, 90s, 00s and again now. The functionality is completely the same; even the screens have the same ux; ui is a bit updated. But the MS foxpro version was fine almost 30 years ago. Not my money though so what can I do.

Not sure how it fits wood furniture; you cannot copy a chair in a nanosecond; you can software. I am not saying there is no space or need for bespoke and unique software but if you are doing LoB apps for/in a big corp, as many of us do daily, chances are there is a) a perfectly fine version already running in your corp somewhere and b) a completely identical product in all the companies around the block.

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Re:I no longer build software by Sodman on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:32PM (#24548712)
> chances are there is a) a perfectly fine version already running in your corp somewhere

You and I have very different experience with big corps :)

My experience is closer to "There's a half-finished version running somewhere that was cut short because of budget/deadline constraints. The team that worked on it is long gone, and it has been maintained by an outsourced team of junior resources for 3 years".

Re-writing a customer-facing system to be closer to the "modern" web experience they're used to on their everyday apps and sites _can_ make a substantial difference to customer experience, and ultimately the bottom line.

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