Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb View Post
Maybe, but my experience has been that screwed up, inadequate, and clumsy solutions tend to persist over time, and money is simply not the root of the problem.
Sometimes.
But being in the development field I see how many times management simply doesn't see or want to acknowledge that using old, bad solutions that have hacks over hacks over hacks and throwing money at fixing issues is significantly more expensive than re-writing from the scratch.