Old applications: a new kind of IT ageism?

I couldn't believe my years this morning (Feb 03 2020): this CBC journalist interviwing a specialist about the problems of IT systems delivering pensions to Canadians and saying that "these systems are so old, [that] they are mission-critical".!!!???  Intonation is key here!
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These systems were mission critical since their day one. They have not become mission-critical because they are old! And while this ineptitude should be addressed with CBC (if I find the time to dig up the name of the program), the issue of aging IT systems is definitely worth of an in depth look in a future article. Very old applications are still the backbone of IT systems in many very large institutions.

Some worth reading articles on the topic:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/complex-impact-fintech-legacy-systems-banking-susan-visser/ (2017)

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