This is a great story. I expect there's a lot of this going on, around the world. It reads almost as the tech version of an Onion headline, doesn't it? Exactly what @doctorow.pluralistic.net means when he rants about "process knowledge" walking out the door.
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he rememberedThe first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projectswww.theregister.com