IDG Contributor Network: What not upgrading enterprise software could cost you

Some things in life are inevitable: death, taxes, and obsolete software.  For extreme examples of obsolete software see this article by Kenneth Corbin: U.S. CIO aims to cut legacy spending, proposes IT modernization. While technologies fall out of favor, companies change, their markets grow, they are familiar with their software and may hang onto it long past its prime. Though there are many reasons not to change enterprise software, possibly the biggest is inertia. If it isn’t broken