Tot cost of a more reasonable scenario- a single employee, total cost 500K per year. For 10 years this would be 5M. Which is indeed less than 1/ten thousand cash on hand.
Maintenance cost is not flat over time. What happens when a product is easy to maintain (one engineer) but suddenly critical infrastructure gets deprecated and now the transition is going to take five engineers? Do you allocate new resources to support products that already have so few users that they only justify maintenance mode?
Maintenance cost is not flat over time. What happens when a product is easy to maintain (one engineer) but suddenly critical infrastructure gets deprecated and now the transition is going to take five engineers? Do you allocate new resources to support products that already have so few users that they only justify maintenance mode?