My point was and is that a narrow notion of "business case" is what I called it, a self-defeating and crackpot-realist one.
There were no insults, no ad hominem ones at least. The platform and the resources it makes available are superb. The uses that have been made of these new resources in the old systems under discussion are exiguous. The simplistic sundowner notion that all business systems should be rebuilt ab initio every five years would be a better and, yes, more economic one than the current, if it ain't broke don't fix it, doctrine. But enough. The problem is a self-correcting one. The shops running trailing-edge AMODE(24) applications and the like are the ones that are disappearing; and they are the ones that deserve to disappear, although they are usually being replaced only by something different, not better. --jg
