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https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/176767#Comment_176767

Well let’s examine this in real terms.

It is very easy to say “re-roll out Service Center” but we have zero idea on what it even took to run it back in the day? Or the more important question on why it was abandoned.

If something IS working well - it makes zero sense to abandon it. That move is simply asking for additional overhead and costs.

What about security? Is anyone going to believe that an app build to 2008 standards would even be allowed on a network here in 2024?

Does the original source code still exist considering NI has been sold several times? Anybody over there still know anything about it works?

Did it rely on technology from third parties that no longer exist or whose licensing agreements ran out 15 years ago. If we think that NI codes everything themselves when it’s way easier and cheaper to license a specific piece from a third party - does not understand how modern development works.

Would it even be possible to rebuild/ replicate a workstation development environment to the exact 2009 standards to even look at the code?

Not to mention the infrastructure that was long since removed to allow SC to work in the first place?

And what might all this cost?

From where I sit as a developer for 20+years - this would be very intensive and (most likely in 2024 dollars) very expensive. For literally no benefit from a business standpoint.

You can see how the venture capitol (stock holder driven) owners of NI would not be interested in investing in anything that has no upside for them.

If this (or any other utility type tool) could have somehow be done without any significant costs or roadblocks - can’t see why they wouldn’t have done it already.

I suspect there is a whole more to this than just the stuff I thought of off the top of my head.

Or as you suspect - NIs owners have no interest in looking back in any way. As annoying as that is - nothing we can do about that.

VP