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BNP Paribas still used Lotus Notes in some departments. And every year it pays a lot of money to COBOL consultants as well.



I work at a company where one group in IT makes AngularJS apps, another writes industry machine learning models, and a few others are using Lotus Notes.

People will use what works


The highest margin software consultancy I ever saw was specialized in maintaining legacy sw applications, running on setups that were popular in the late 80s and early 90s. A little niche, but extremely high margin.




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