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I am one of those external vendors who did solve a big problem in a now billion-dollar company (though it was a tenth that size when I got involved).

The "proper solution" which uses a "proper" development stack (not MySQL/Delphi) has been in planning for the past 5 years, in fact they have had two other development teams on it and have changed the stack they are going to use twice. The solution to date has been to erode the product carving off the easy parts into other systems while leaving the complicated bits as is.

The new team are quite good however and I am really hoping the guys will get some traction soon as I am hoping to retire next year. And before anyone asks, Yes, they have known my retirement intentions for the last 3 years