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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2017) by walshemj on Friday January 04, 2019 @07:00AM (#18823401)
I saw this a BT where on system was rewritten in OWS (Oracle Web Services) used 15 Person Years and around a Million Quid - Not the best use of shareholders money.

But some one got to tick some boxes on there promotion track

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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2017) by polskibus on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:07PM (#18827198)
Many enterprises are rewriting their apps to the cloud stacks for no good reason, at a great capex and later opex.
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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2017) by heavenlyblue on Friday January 04, 2019 @07:09AM (#18823434)
Well, but that money was certainly not needed for someone else if it was so readily available.
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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2017) by walshemj on Friday January 04, 2019 @01:56PM (#18826630)
Like pay rises, funding more roles to allow more career progression or gasp retuning it to the share holders?
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