[Gllug] HSBC problems!

[Doug Winter]

Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> True, it is a broad term but it does have a meaning in the IT
> world - many people use it. If it were meaningless it would not be in
> common use. I've heard it many times, though I'd agree that there are
> different perspectives. Obviously something you feel quite stongly about.
> What term would you use instead to describe systems that are still in
> operation but effectively unsupported (or soon to be unsupported) by
> the vendor?

But that's not what it means.  Most of the systems called "legacy" are 
supported perfectly adequately by the vendor, and will continue to be so.

Really it's just a FUD term used to mean "not as cool as what I'm trying 
to sell you now".  As such it doesn't really mean anything :)

doug.


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