• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    To me its amazing they’ve been able to use the same system for that long, it must cost almost nothing to run vs a “proper” system. Kind of assuming it wasn’t a constant headache cause then it would be stupid to keep it around.

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      11 months ago

      Migration is expensive and time consuming so wouldn’t be surprised if laziness played a major role in that even if its obviously a problem

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        11 months ago

        That’s true and I’ve seen this thing a lot to the point people were buying assorted spare parts for a refrigerator sized server circa 1998 almost 20 years later while the entire business was complaining about how slow it was for a majority of those years. Our data center dates back to the 80s so there’s some great artifacts still lurking around.

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      11 months ago

      Oh it absolutely did not work properly. We lost a $300M lawsuit because the system would bill clients wrong.

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        11 months ago

        rofl that’s kind of amazing then. I’m used to legacy stuff that nobody wants to touch because it’s functioning how it’s supposed to.