I have seen a few potential projects that the replacement had to be identical to the former product, only on a new platform. Instead of making an app that fit the platform first and doing what is needed as well.
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, at 10:42 PM, Darren wrote:
I know of a bank that spent upwards of 30M trying to port a VFP app, that had been developed over 15+ years with a group of developers, to .NET - all got dumped. 30M+ wasted
None of these are a necessarily a .NET problem though, you can point to similar disasters with any platform and\or language. They will have been the usual lack of scoping, lack of ownership, overselling, overexpectations ....
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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