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I ordered a part from the Lenovo web site, and just received an e-mail shipment notification pointing me to the Lenovo Order Status site which is powered by ColdFusion!
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Wish we could rewrite it, very old system originally written by about 3 generations of developers back. ;)
It's one of those "it's not broken so don't fix it" situations, sales-driven organizations have a very hard time justifying hours and/or cost to rewrite anything that isn't so broken it's unusable, which at this point (ugly code and all) it still "works".
I ordered a part from the Lenovo web site, and just received an e-mail shipment notification pointing me to the
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But maybe the guys (Nathan et al) inherited a very old system which was only to step-wise be improved...
Good luck with that, corporate sites very often are snails to renew to standardized, websafe code.
It's one of those "it's not broken so don't fix it" situations, sales-driven organizations have a very hard time justifying hours and/or cost to rewrite anything that isn't so broken it's unusable, which at this point (ugly code and all) it still "works".