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We're talking about entitites that run COBOL code from the 60s and are too afraid to update or replace it, for fear that something break.

There's a reason why most enterprise-oriented systems take inertia quite seriously — it has been something their customers greatly desire who are losing considerable capital on even minor downtime.




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