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Ask HN: Is maintaining/supporting old tech stack a profitable business?

4 pointsby htfy96over 4 years ago
In the past few years I noticed a significant speedup on the iteration of tech stack. Meanwhile, I observed that many legacy tech stack (already deprecated by their original authors) are still widely used, but few fresh blood have related skills&#x2F;willing to learn them.<p>The similar situation of supporting short-lived software for a longer time has been proved to be profitable by Red Hat&#x27;s business model. I was wondering if there could be similar business for things beyond system libs like old PHP frameworks, perl libs, Ruby on Rails (sorry to mention it here, but it&#x27;s impacted a lot by Node.js) and even deep learning frameworks in older versions.

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ev1over 4 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;makandra.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;makandra.com</a> sells maintenance plants for Rails , outdated&#x2F;EOL instance