2.3 Summary

Modernizing the RSS was, and continues to be, a complicated task with technical, process, and managerial issues. As a huge amalgamation of antiquated code implementing an obscure and undecipherable design, it is in every way a highly representative example of a legacy system! The complexity in the RSS is derived primarily from the system's size and inscrutability ”making an ad hoc approach to modernization inherently risky.