Some context: FogBugz was acquired in 2018 by DevFactory, a different ESW-funded company.[0] The new owners promised that FogBugz would be rewritten in under

Some context: FogBugz was acquired in 2018 by DevFactory, a different ESW-funded company.[0] The new owners promised that FogBugz would be rewritten in under 5000 lines of code.[1] (For comparison, the Flash ActionScript code for the “evidence-based scheduling” feature’s UI alone was over 5000 LOC.) Nathan Vardi, then at Forbes, called ESW a “global software sweat shop”. Not really relevant to FogBugz, but maybe it explains some of what’s behind this IP transfer [2] DevFactory announced the alpha of Cloud Native FogBugz in 2021 [3] Now, in this article, IgniteTech is promising: > 1) to save and stabilize the software and business[… and] 2) to continuously innovate and transition products to the AWS cloud implying, to me, that the DevFactory “cloud native” version was a total failure, and that the old creaky legacy .NET version they acquired is too expensive for DevFactory to be able to run, and also somehow not yet fully transitioned to AWS?! (I had heard that they decommissioned the physical colo datacenter by 2019, so I’m not sure where FogBugz is actually running now.) [0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/devfactory-acquires-manuscript-from-fog-creek-software-300700638.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/devfactory-acquires... [1] https://twitter.com/FogBugzTeam/status/1098287969700433920 https://twitter.com/FogBugzTeam/status/1098287969700433920 [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/11/19/how-a-mysterious-tech-billionaire-created-two-fortunesand-a-global-software-sweatshop/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/11/19/how-a-my... [3] https://blog.fogbugz.com/fogbugz-the-road-ahead https://blog.fogbugz.com/fogbugz-the-road-ahead