The sad thing about sunsetting useful resources is that usually a proper cleanup is not being performaned.
Take for instance QC: it died 7 years ago (Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of customer work down the drain) and is still mentioned in dozens of places including this prominent one: [Wayback/Archive] Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio.
This is just an example from a product I still love, so I know what is lost, but plenty of other companies forget they are the custodians of their own sites and leaving things rotting makes for a bad feeling of their overall behaviour.
It’s not hard to be not sloppy. Here are some 20+ more links to fix: [Wayback/Archive] “qc.embarcadero.com” site:embarcadero.com – Google Search
Note the next will be CodeCentral, which was annouced to get sunset 5 years ago:
- [Wayback/Archive] The Future of CodeCentral
- [Wayback/Archive] GM Update as part of a link to what looks like a positive message “GitHub The Future of CodeCentral” (which points to the above link, which in turns summarises to “it’s up to all the folks – even the ones already dead – that put their stuff on codecentral in the first placce”).
People want to save this (see for instance [Wayback/Archive] EMBT: Code Central is going away – Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]), but regrettably companies aren’t going to do themselves it despite they owe it to their customers and their legacy.
--jeroen
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