[familyop]

"...in other words, decide whether - and how - to compete against external suppliers or re-structure to manage those suppliers."

..."manage those suppliers?" That's pretty funny. In the coming years, they will either sign the contracts or pay salaries/wages for inferior code, IMO. Good developers will be paid again, one way or another.

[libs_kma]

They are all going to go bonkers when the year 10,000 bug becomes a reality. Think of all that code that was so short-sightedly given only 4 characters for the year field.