>but if you want to rewrite the codebase into a different paradigm you need to clearly demonstrate what we'll be getting out of it.
Well, that all seems reasonable until that upstart competitor comes along and upends the market with simpler stuff that doesn’t require so much bondage and discipline and tithe to process religion suppliers, and the customers start to question the value you’re supplying and wham, all that orderly process and framing is like out the window, man, like man the lifeboats. It’s a pain to stay in the game when it seems like change for changes’ sake and there’s no time to sit down and reason through a business case before the next new shiny hits. Stupid but true.
I still remember Digital trying to sell me maintenance contracts for 20 year old PDP-11s still in service out in the field. We rebuilt our entire infrastructure from scratch on new software and hardware in less than a year for 2/3rds the cost of the annual maintenance contract...the next year those pretty wood paneled Digital offices with executive dining rooms had "for lease" signs out front. Digital had failed the paradigm shift.
Well, that all seems reasonable until that upstart competitor comes along and upends the market with simpler stuff that doesn’t require so much bondage and discipline and tithe to process religion suppliers, and the customers start to question the value you’re supplying and wham, all that orderly process and framing is like out the window, man, like man the lifeboats. It’s a pain to stay in the game when it seems like change for changes’ sake and there’s no time to sit down and reason through a business case before the next new shiny hits. Stupid but true.
I still remember Digital trying to sell me maintenance contracts for 20 year old PDP-11s still in service out in the field. We rebuilt our entire infrastructure from scratch on new software and hardware in less than a year for 2/3rds the cost of the annual maintenance contract...the next year those pretty wood paneled Digital offices with executive dining rooms had "for lease" signs out front. Digital had failed the paradigm shift.