VB custom application sustainability

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This really is not an issue or problem more than it is a topic for discussion. In my position, and I suspect many others, I am kind of a lone wolf where management will want data or some business process automated and I have been there to whip up something in ASP or a VB .Net winform and also the one building out new stored procs or even new databases and structures. So yeah, full stack development.

But the discussion is this: my managers have a concern that I will be hit by that bus someday and who there would have the knowledge to carry on these programs, so they like to contract out business at a bigger cost than what they pay me. However, there still are projects that I work on where I still create applications for them and others. I currently am working on decommissioning an older DB2 mainframe, moving that data into SQL (read only at this point) and creating end user UI to see the data, save data as PDF, etc.

So what should my response to my managers be when they bring up that "hit by the bus" concern? Maybe that there are independent contractors or software houses out there that could support any code that I write? Or something similar?


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