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Article16 Aug 20267 min readAlejandro VallecillaThe shutdown plan is seven years oldA legacy ecommerce core was scheduled for shutdown in 2019 and has more systems depending on it now than it had then. Three replacement projects put it there. Outlived three CIOs, one office move, and a vendor that is not reachable. The cost of keeping it is growing, split across ten cost centres, and attributable to nobody. The cost of removing it requires one owner and one budget line, but yet, the legacy runs today.