On 2017-10-05 15:43, Kevin Cully wrote:
I worked for a company that produced Real Estate software for the commercial side of things. We had a national client that said they were leaving our product to develop a new .NET solution with another company.
They returned after 1.5 years and after spending $2.1M. They started asking us for enhancements again. Ouch.
I'm figure throwing away a working system *may* work, but most likely it's an expensive lesson to someone.
SOMEBODY got fired for that one!!!! I used to work for a global tutoring company with a similar story. Going on 8 years after I left, they still haven't replaced the application I stabilized and improved. And I mean that very literally--it's the EXACT SAME VERSION as when I left in July 2010. NEVER UPDATED SINCE. I'm proud of the fact that despite their efforts to replace my app, it's still used globally. :-)