Timeline for When is a BIG Rewrite the answer?
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| Apr 7, 2020 at 14:53 | comment | added | Kain0_0 | @Stephen true, but that is the same as saying that a game written for a playstation 4 has better graphical resources than if it were written for a playstation 1. Most server applications, web services, and back-end batch processors will not generally gain such benefits, aside from those afforded to the developers themselves. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 3:28 | comment | added | Stephen | "rewrites have no direct effects/benefits for the customer" - this is often a myth, as the newer frameworks provide "built in" a lot of productivity enhancements that are either impossible or far too expensive to implement. One example, upgrading a vb6 app to a .net app allows users to open larger files (due to a 64 bit architecture) which therefore means that the end users don't have to artificially break up their work. | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 1:17 | history | edited | Jim G. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2011 at 10:11 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by user8 | ||
| Apr 3, 2011 at 19:20 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Apr 2, 2011 at 18:04 | comment | added | user1249 | I recently rewrote a Visual Basic application in Java. This allowed it to be run as a service under Windows (no Java GUI) - benefit to customer. | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 22:13 | comment | added | ChrisLively | @John: As an executive, I would have a very hard time greenlighting a rewrite on an application that my sales team has yet to get a customer for. In all honesty, I'd give it a certain amount of time, and then decide what to do. If interest isn't there, I'd trash the whole thing and pick something else to do. | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 12:52 | vote | accept | Jonn | ||
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| Sep 22, 2010 at 12:50 | comment | added | Jonn | This is currently used for a demo app (no customers have bought it recently and I figured now's the best time to recreate it). | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 12:20 | comment | added | Ryan Hayes | +1 for refactor approach. Lots of times there's not enough time or manhours to rewrite AND maintain the existing system. | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 12:09 | history | answered | Toon Krijthe | CC BY-SA 2.5 |