[giantg2]

How did you get people to listen to your suggestion to rewrite, or did you have that authority?

I made similar suggestions to my boss about a system once. They basically told me it would never happen and to stop thinking about stuff like that so I could focus on the day to day stuff. Well, 2 years later and they outsourced that entire group to a company who will end up rewriting the system...

[tluyben2]

I was the CTO.

[giantg2]

Edit: this comment misunderstood the parent

[detaro]

CIO and CTO ar quite different roles, so why do you think how your company does it has any relevance to what tluyben2 has done? Why do you think they are talking about your company?

[giantg2]

My bad. I see they were responding to the leading question of my post, not the situation part of it.

[tluyben2]

You are right, I should have quoted the top so it was clearer what I was answering to.

[giantg2]

I was up basically all night so I just wasn't reading straight. I think for most people it would have been apparent even without the quote.

[uchiga]

Its cheaper to have an external group do the rewrite since they can maintain the code going forward.