end-of-life

Continue a Classic ASP site or insist a language change?

So today I was in a meeting to assist putting together a proposal to give one of our clients on how we can improve their web site. After two hours we had a pretty hefty list of new features and resource upgrades that coupled with their latest request for a site redesign, would put us in a good position to suggest a 'rewrite' in another l...

Proposing Glassfish to customers

With Sun being taken over by Oracle, Oracle will arguably gain control of Glassfish. I do understand that Glassfish is community driven but most of the contributions do come out of Sun at this time. Its a great App Server and perfect for many cost-sensitive customers. However, if Oracle decides to pull the rug from under our feet on th...

How to determine web application end of life?

Dear SO Community, This question could bring a lot of opinions to the table, but what I will like to get is a set of measures that will help me and my company determine the end of life of a product that we sell. We sell a CMS system, with this system we create a few sub-products Websites Proposal Creator Marketing Campaign Tracker ...

A company that had a successful product but went bust for not innovating?

At the company that I work we have a successful software product that did well but is now obsolete and unmaintainable. I am trying to explain that you need to innovate and replace this product with new offering in order to survive. I am looking for some good examples of companies that made the mistake that we are close to making - relyin...