Reminds me of all the COBOL programmers who got rehired to fix code that had never been replaced prior to Y2K.
Hang in to your VFP y'all, they are going to keep needing us for a while. Maybe until Y3K!!!! :) Paul Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 5, 2017, at 10:31 PM, [email protected] > wrote: > >> 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. :-) > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
