Yeah, rewriting everything is almost never a good choice from a business value perspective. Usually, the most sensible thing to do, is to break the system up in

Yeah, rewriting everything is almost never a good choice from a business value perspective. Usually, the most sensible thing to do, is to break the system up in components, and rewrite them slowly while keeping interop with the old system. Downtime is no money time. And new features sometimes give more value, even if the programmer is grumpy.