Oh it absolutely did not work properly. We lost a $300M lawsuit because the system would bill clients wrong.
To me its amazing they’ve been able to use the same system for that long, it must cost almost nothing to run vs a “proper” system. Kind of assuming it wasn’t a constant headache cause then it would be stupid to keep it around.
droans@lemmy.world 11 months ago
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 11 months ago
rofl that’s kind of amazing then. I’m used to legacy stuff that nobody wants to touch because it’s functioning how it’s supposed to.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Migration is expensive and time consuming so wouldn’t be surprised if laziness played a major role in that even if its obviously a problem
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s true and I’ve seen this thing a lot to the point people were buying assorted spare parts for a refrigerator sized server circa 1998 almost 20 years later while the entire business was complaining about how slow it was for a majority of those years. Our data center dates back to the 80s so there’s some great artifacts still lurking around.