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Of course you're assuming they have anyone left at the company that understand the software. So many times the original team that wrote it is gone, and there is a plate of spaghetti left for the next group to figure out.

It's probably worse than that. Most likely the vendor subcontracted it out to an overseas contractor that hired mostly junior-level programmers who are now working elsewhere.

I was pretty incredulous until a cousin poster started talking about auditing, testing, red tape, out of date systems, and security.

Seems plausible it could balloon.

sounds much more like budget politics against the incompetent