Necessity is the mother of invention, indeed. But, the invention can be heinous.
My favorite encounter with such hacky tech was at an insurance broker's office. It was 3 years ago, and this company first of all still used 15" CRT screens (with burned-in images because they ran no screensavers). They opened up a remote Citrix session (which I only know because it took over a minute for the splash screen to disappear) which connected to a Windows 2000 server that displayed a vt100 terminal window that then connected to their insurance company mainframe. They couldn't use the mouse to navigate the interface, of course, only tab/alt-tab.
Somewhere there is disruption, but, really, where does one even begin? It's the technology equivalent of a court-appointed cleanout of a hoarders home.
You tell me. I work for an insurance company that bet the farm on Forté's 4GL technology (then bought by SUN and renamed Unified Development Server, and then killed).
My favorite encounter with such hacky tech was at an insurance broker's office. It was 3 years ago, and this company first of all still used 15" CRT screens (with burned-in images because they ran no screensavers). They opened up a remote Citrix session (which I only know because it took over a minute for the splash screen to disappear) which connected to a Windows 2000 server that displayed a vt100 terminal window that then connected to their insurance company mainframe. They couldn't use the mouse to navigate the interface, of course, only tab/alt-tab.
Somewhere there is disruption, but, really, where does one even begin? It's the technology equivalent of a court-appointed cleanout of a hoarders home.