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Re:The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code by 908B64B197 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:22PM (#24924782)
You forgot the end:

- A true tech company arrives in the market

- They iterate faster

- Hire the few good members of your IT team, leaving you with the truly outdated ones

- Market share erodes

- "In this tough economy, we all have to make sacrifices"

- IT gets its budget slashed

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Re:The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code by redis_mlc on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:43PM (#24926195)
It's an interesting narrative, but I can't think of any examples, since business is more about sales than "software iteration" - whatever that means.

Most of the successful startups that I can think of are still running basically the version 1.0 a founder wrote.

Can you provide some examples?

Also, you're mixing up the concepts/terms of software development (writing products) and IT. Software product companies don't call software engineering/development "IT" - IT is the guy who buys computers and restarts the wifi AP as needed.

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