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Re:A single character code change by davemp on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:01PM (#21937860)
> I'm not sure he ever got around to explaining how it saved "half a million dollars", though.

Probably the classic software vanity formula:

    profit = efficiency
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Re:A single character code change by sixothree on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:43PM (#21938309)
FTA:

It involved some expensive re-architecturing.

It required some very expensive new servers.

It required a lot of even more expensive new licences for the third party components.

It required delaying the features the business wanted until all this work was done.

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