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		yndoendo on Oct 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity I would argue that much of Microsoft is built around legacy applications and code that prevents moving to alternative solutions. A lot of companies do not want to spend the time and money to pivot, not have the labor to do so. The true tech debt is a hidden cost where change is a visible cost.

red-iron-pine on Oct 10, 2023 [–]

Oracle and MSSQL enterprise owned my last org.

SAP offered to migrate us -- on to their new HANA platform. Guess how much that would cost?

So we still have these ancient Oracle boxes and newish MSSQL kicking around. They should be entering high school before too long...

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