How to attract people to work on very old and outdated technologies?

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I've been pondering starting a consulting business to help small companies maintain or migrate old apps written in stuff that's not supported any more, because I suspect this might be a good business opportunity ("where there's muck, there's brass"), with not too much competition, since people tend to prefer focusing on new technologies. I personally have no issue with using old languages, tools and platforms.

Is anyone doing something similar? My main fear would be failure to deliver, since there is more uncertainty in the process; you have to make sure you have the source code from the client, and that you can find not just the development tools (eBay, etc.) but also the manuals and the OS to run them, and so on.

”I work in a IT company that is deeply specialized in projects made with old and outdated technologies”

If I was in his position, I think I would just leave the company. Think of it as a Kobayashi Maru solution.

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