I have seen a scenario where a bespoke application which had also been running for sometime had been lost to the miasma (consultants took the source code with t

I have seen a scenario where a bespoke application which had also been running for sometime had been lost to the miasma (consultants took the source code with them). The organization in question paid for a team of forensic software experts to reverse engineer it to the best of their ability ahead of a full data center migration to a new facility. I left the company while they were somewhere in the middle of this project.