The debt is only yours (and your business) if you have the responsibility for developing the application and failed to manage the process to add new features or fix bugs. How many C-level executives can point to their process for managing the $10M worthy of applications and the $500M of data that those application are playing with.
It is interesting that the Enterprise Irregulars blog posts do not talk about Data Management, Information Management and Application Management as have similar patterns of management that involve accountability and responsibility for the business, technology (TCP/IP, PHP, OAuth, etc..), Policy/Rules, data/information and applications.
If you fail to manage your assets your go into debt, you may even fail and lose the company.
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