The Junker

In Minnesota, there is a necessity for a "junker" car...especially for starting drivers.

You know, something that is striped down to be little more than a rattling gas can with wheels.

Something cheap.

Something that is already on its deathbed.

Now, I've had a couple of cars turn into junkers.  It's sad, but I think fondly of the trips I've made in them and give them a good send off to compactor heaven.

I think most people are capable of making this break with their old reliable vehicle, as painful as it may be.

I wonder, then, why is it that these same people cannot admit when they have junker code- a "legacy" software product that is so out-dated that it will never be returned from the grave.

It's chassis (code base) is broken (unsupported).

It needs an engine overhaul (it doesn't integrate with any existing software)

It needs new wheels, as well as tires (it only runs on the legacy hardware box that you have, literally, running with duct tape and bailing wire).

At this point, it's quite obvious that you need a new car.

Why can't you admit you need new software at this point?  Your valiant efforts to resuscitate the code are not going to pay off.