Comment by svilen_dobrev

in 6th edition of Ian Sommerville's "Software engineering" textbook, there was a whole chapter on legacy software. How to fix, how to emulate, copy, migrate, whatever. Technical issues slowly progressing into human/social. Maybe because it was after the y2k. Then in 8th, it got merged into other sub/chapters, and later ones the topic is even more muddied. There's no more legacy software, right? Except there is.. all of it may become a burden, because of time or because of politics.

Come on, that is an University, there are many many students eager to learn the art-of-migration, for free. Migrate away, one by one, department by department if needs be. Disable M$ Excel, give everyone Libreoffice , python, r, or any-other-linux-stuff, and if the professors are so wooden, let the students find a way to replace that wonder.xls with something else. Then repeat with next piece of the entanglement..

But, no, only complaining (a.k.a. need more money)