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Hmmm, I kept reading your comment multiple times and could not put a finger on what bothered me.

> Want an example? Adobe Sign. Here is a product that they can never stop supporting. The software doesn't need more features, but they still need security updates and maintenance.

I do work at Adobe but not on Sign, and I think it just ruffled my feathers to see an offhand comment putting down some great work.

Please do check out https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/sign/features.html

You will be utterly surprised how many FAANG level salary companies use Java EE :)

Disclaimer: I do hate Java with a passion

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> I think it just ruffled my feathers to see an offhand comment putting down some great work.

Adobe is a big place with many great products. No offense intended.

> You will be utterly surprised how many FAANG level salary companies use Java EE :)

I very much doubt the engineers working on Adobe Sign are making FAANG salaries. Maybe your team does. Adobe is a big place.

Not sure I am seeing the put down, what was negative about the comment?

Probably an overreaction on my part, but the comment made it seem like Adobe was a boring existence and not much happens.

Looking from the outside in, that’s definitely how it appears.

Perspective is important :)

Agreed. Perspective is important :+1 In hindsight, should not have commented and brushed it off :)

Which is why it's fine to challenge the comment. The commenter is implying a lot considering he doesn't have any inside knowledge of Adobe Sign.

And even if you look at public data--esignatures being relatively new, Covid moving more things to digital, DocuSign's share price up 5x since their 2018 IPO, Dropbox acquiring HelloSign for $230M, Adobe's own share price up 15x in the last 10 years--there's not much to indicate that Adobe Sign is a legacy app that could just survive in maintenance mode.

There's also a tendency for people to underestimate the size and complexity of applications because they only use a fraction of the features.

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