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Why are companies so willing to ignore information technology maintenance? If you have a 40-year-old roof, it will need to be replaced at some point. Why is this any different? Aren’t they able to depreciate investments in information technology like any other asset? I’m not an MBA, so I don’t get it.

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If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. No one is going to be happy if you’re upgrading your system to allow diacritics in the name and suddenly all their money disappears. There’s a reason they use COBOL so much and that is because they haven’t needed to replace it. Replacing it just because it’s old just seems like chasing the new ideas for the sake of it.

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