Bryan Jacquot of HPE tells a story in this episode of The New Stack Makers about a company in the healthcare space he visited recently that has an application dating back to the early 1990s. Now this application from the big hair era faces competition from companies deploying more sophisticated, more modern services.

So what are these companies to do that have these relatively ancient software infrastructures that have less relevance than ever before? The challenge comes with how developers in larger companies that are largely building out monolithic technologies.  Part of the answer comes with building ancillary services. But that's just barely touching on the issue.