Exactly
And there's a great deal of money there.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 11:27,
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In a similar vein
Up until a couple of years ago I used to have to support a Digital VAX cluster dating from 1991. Spare parts were impossible to find, but we had to keep it going as it was what we used to support our clients who still had them at the very core of their operations.
The clients were still running them as replacing them would have meant a complete rewrite of their entire business management software - which to ensure it kept them within their regulatory framework would probably have taken five years and cost tens of millions. They were prisoners of this system because they couldn't afford not to run it and couldn't afford to replace it. We made a decent amount of money supporting it.
I stopped having to support this system not because they replaced it, but because I moved jobs. To the best of my knowledge they're still on it.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 11:44,
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jeeze that sounds like a nightmare for them
But as you say, it still needs to be supported and they will pay for it. Banking systems are pretty dated too, even when there is the money to update they don't because of all the extra hassle of retraining staff etc.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 12:24,
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