How realistic does it sound to you that a codebase that size would be transferred to a new team without any of the old team, outside of a hack of a bank or a reversal of some outsourcing decision or something like that?
Typically the value of such a codebase is determined by the quality of the team maintaining it and the degree to which it is documented.
Complexity of software constructs is not linear and enough books have been written about simply multiplying and dividing manyears and lines of code that I don't think we need to hash that out all over again. See 'the mythical man-month' and many similar books and articles.
Typically the value of such a codebase is determined by the quality of the team maintaining it and the degree to which it is documented.
Complexity of software constructs is not linear and enough books have been written about simply multiplying and dividing manyears and lines of code that I don't think we need to hash that out all over again. See 'the mythical man-month' and many similar books and articles.