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How to design a Web application with a 40+ year lifetime?

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Pete asked:

Currently, I am apart of a health care project whose main requirement is to capture data with unknown attributes using user-generated forms by health care providers. The second requirement is that data integrity is key and that the application will be used for 40+ years. We are currently migrating the client's data from the past 40 years from various sources (Paper, Excel, Access, etc...) to the database. Future requirements are:

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