[vaidhy]

I did not say it is bad. I just wanted to point out that N^2 communications are a big hit (of course we know them for long time) and people under-estimate the co-ordination effort and the fact that already running systems impose constraints that are not true for green-field efforts.

I think I am regurgitating mythical man-month here and will shut up.

[VBprogrammer]

> the fact that already running systems impose constraints that are not true for green-field efforts

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I often find that doing a new greenfield project sounds easier but by the time you deal with all of the non-functional stuff (connectivity, resilience, logging, build tools, documentation etc) you might have been quicker holding your nose and bodging it in somewhere vaguely appropriate in an existing system.

[vaidhy]

There is shit-ton of work to be done :)