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The new platform has much lower maintenance costs and will cost less for development when compared to design changes in the old platform. It is always said that it is better to build a new system rather than correct the design changes in the old system. At this point in time, investing huge resources (time and money) on the old system in a crisis situation is not justifiable when the demand can be achieved with a new platform at a lower cost.

• One can argue that when the growth increases, the new system could be beneficial in the long term. But this is not true. Technological advances are very fast in this information age. If we invest in the old platform (which takes more time and money), even before the growth of the company increases, a new technology would be available at a much lower cost providing better performance. Innovation in IT is fast growing and companies have to keep up with new technologies for their competitive advantage. So investing in design changes in the old system is not beneficial in the long term.

• There is also the risk associated with the performance of the UNIX platform after the design changes. Design changes are not difficult to implement and can have a butterfly effect resulting in usage of more resources (time and money) than anticipated. What if the design changes do not resolve the issues after considerable amount of investment. And also, the old one being a sophisticated platform, it may not be easily customizable in the long term. This flexibility of a platform is critical to future success.

Conclusion:

. So my decision would be to invest in the new platform which can serve

the demand in the short term at lower costs and then invest later on new upcoming technologies which would provide not only high performance but also lower costs.

In today's times, the company could take advantage of the new technologies and use cloud computing, just paying for the services it needs

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