In a message dated 4/10/2006 3:44:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>We keep it, or we justify delete or re-write. ... >Buying new products is not, unfortunately. Assume the cost of the new product is X. Does management understand that Y, the cost of re-writing, is greater than 0? Salaries must be paid, test time on a system must be acquired, maintenance (debugging after it goes into production) will be non-negligible for a year or two, and then there is the opportunity cost (the other work that was not done by those doing the re-write). Is Y>X? Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
