Ed Gould wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/junk_your_it_now_before_it_drags_you_under/
Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to stagnation.
He's not talking about mainframes. He doesn't seem to know they exist. Nor does
he know that the demise of Sun Microsystems,
arguably the single most innovative hardware+software company of the 1980's and 1990's, was in no small part due to
their betting the
farm on the proposition that Java J2EE on SPARC was going to replace TPF on the
390.
Beyond that, what he says is nonsense in general. It's not true about technology as a whole. There are pools and eddies
and perfectly
lovely backwaters always.
--
Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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