[WrtCdEvrydy]

> outsourcing all your technology means you will struggle to iterate and improve that technology.

Internally, we consider outsourcing the same as pausing all forward momentum on the outsourced components.

It's just a reduction in current cost with an understanding that there will no new features and very little maintenance.

[caoilte]

Yup. Very often. In fact every system I ever saw being outsourced was being done so in the knowledge that it was going to die. It's a face saving gesture that allows executives to sidestep the sunk cost write-off.

In a couple of large retail examples it was obvious that they knew their entire bricks and mortar business model only had a decade or so of life left in it and they figured their godawful legacy ERP solution would stumble on until then.