I always wondered why they don't do a more traditional web services-style rewrite. Break the site up into a smaller and smaller services first, then start rewri

I always wondered why they don't do a more traditional web services-style rewrite. Break the site up into a smaller and smaller services first, then start rewriting individual services in Java or C++ or whatever. Pound away at it for a while, and eventually you'll have the whole site rewritten and refactored in a much more maintainable way.