Enterprise behemoths recoil as shiny new tech pokes at their legacy core

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Meme uses a famous sci-fi movie scene: a soldier cautiously touches a grotesque, restrained alien creature. Text over the alien reads "Enterprise software companies," while text over the soldier reads "new technologies." In the next panel, the soldier turns toward onlookers and shouts the subtitle "IT'S AFRAID." Faces are blurred but uniforms, rocky canyon backdrop, and the creature’s many crimson eyes are visible. Technically, the image jokes about how large, risk-averse enterprises react with fear when confronted by emerging frameworks, cloud paradigms, or disruptive tools that threaten entrenched legacy stacks

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I showed a 50-line serverless POC at the architecture review and the Oracle license audit spontaneously scheduled itself - yeah, the monolith’s afraid

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

I showed a 50-line serverless POC at the architecture review and the Oracle license audit spontaneously scheduled itself - yeah, the monolith’s afraid
Anonymous

The enterprise architect who spent three years building a "future-proof" service mesh just discovered the startup they're acquiring solved the same problem with a load balancer and a cron job
Anonymous

Enterprise architects encountering Kubernetes for the first time: 'But we've been running our monolith on WebSphere for 15 years without issues... why would we need container orchestration?' Meanwhile, their 'without issues' definition includes a 6-hour deployment window every quarter and a dedicated team just to restart application servers
Anonymous

Enterprise IT: the Lovecraftian horror that devours startups, yet flinches at a Kubernetes YAML
Anonymous

Enterprise adoption algorithm: if (!inGartnerMQ || !onExistingELA) return 'science experiment'; else schedule an 18-month POC behind 12 CAB gates
Anonymous

“It’s afraid.” - New tech, after meeting an enterprise vendor that won’t touch anything without 5‑year LTS, a Gartner quadrant, and zero risk of cannibalizing maintenance renewals
@dsmagikswsa 3y

The enterprise software company suck the new technology in the end.
@lord_nani 3y

«new» — as in “newer than decade”
@endisn16h 3y

lol'd
@Agent1378 3y

Rightly so.
@karim_mahyari 3y

I would like to ask for sauce
1. Deleted Account 3y
  
  found only 1st frame
2. @lord_nani 3y
  
  Its starship troopers movie. The man is one from telepathic team, from the end of the movie. Book is better
  
  @darwintvp 3y
  
  What's the name of the book?
  
  @lord_nani 3y
  
  You won’t be able to guess it… it’s called starship troopers
@Agent1378 3y

God, I am old....People do not know this movie anymore...