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My place of employment is moving their code-base more towards Java. That's part of the reason why we're being provided with new computers - in order to run the new code, more workstation processing power is needed, as compared to the old code which largely ran on a mainframe. We're being given training too. I skipped the first class on Java, as I'm already pretty familiar with Java. But we've been encouraged to do some online refresher courses too, on our own time. Yesterday I took one. Just now I was going to take another, but discovered that the website (Skillsoft) that hosts the company's online training materials is down for a 2-hour "standard weekly maintenance". Taking a commercial website down for extended maintenance like that every week seems so... archaic.