Software Decay

Krishna Kumar writes Maintenance over at Thought Clusters:

Like tangible products, software products also decay. They do so because the environment around them keeps changing. The rules of the business change. People’s expectations about user interfaces change. The increased quantity of data and number of users requires performance tuning as well as better physical resources. The quality of data also brings new challenges of organization and reporting. Superior technology makes the existing architecture and design outdated. 

It seems to me that software development and software capabilities are radically different today compared to just 3 or 4 years ago, so the decay rate is probably pretty high. What do you think?

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