The case for retiring old software (and software developers)

Martin Courtney
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Do some employees quietly cling on to applications long past their sell-by date to keep themselves in a job?

That 60 per cent of big companies in the US and Europe believe they currently support far more applications than are actually required to run their business may not be surprising - the higher up th...

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