TechHacker Noonabout 5 hours ago
The Hidden Cost of Software Rewrites
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Rewrites fail when teams discard accumulated system knowledge encoded in code. Netscape's rewrite cost three years and the browser market. The FBI's Virtual Case File project wasted $105 million. Digg's 2010 rebuild lost 30% of traffic. Forgetting, not failure, kills systems.
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