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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8975)10/23/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: David Eddy   of 9818
 
Cheeky -

But, don't you think will advancing technology we are going to be using that software 40 years from now.

I DON'T THINK SO.

Unfortunately the record speaks differently... "Old hardware goes to the dumpster, old software goes back into production tonight."

Physical things wear out. Software doesn't. While it's alluring to talk of replacing legacy (meaning they actually work) systems with wondrous new things like SAP... running systems display astonishing resilience & longevity.

I know that one system I helped write in the early 1980s (staged in production beginning 1983) is still very much alive at a major money center bank.

And even when the software can be replaced, existing data structures/definitions (& their mutant offspring) have very long life times.

Just because someone is running a "new" SQL database engine, there are very good chances (particularly if you're in an existing company) that the tables are often one-to-one clones of their flat file predecessors.

- David
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