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> cool things™ instead of boring maintenance on a utilit

You can't re-sell a boring utility every one/two/three years.

Nobody wants it - not the top management (bonuses for the revenue growth), nor the middle management (bonuses for the succesful new projects), nor the guys who implements the things (reconginition for the new projects).

Or talking simpler - KPI. And there is no 'we improved the stability for 0.0000002% of clients' indicator along with 'customers are happy with the thing we sold them in 2017'.

And don't forget what it was some fruit company what even wasn't in the corporate which made it fashionable to have a 'totes new and refreshing experience (along with a hefty price tag)' every year or two.



Stability, performance, security, all of this stuff doesn’t matter until it becomes a crisis, then it’s the most important thing in the world




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