Let us know how that goes... Enterprises never seem to understand the true cost of outsourcing... They just look at the short-term bottom line. In my experience, paying the people you already have to do the job works out better long term. I've picked up new languages and technologies for new projects many times without issue and employees tend to be more invested in the work. Maybe I'm just old school. I don't know if the team being outsourced to is offshore or not, and I'm not knocking offshore workers, but when work is outsourced offshore there are hidden costs. Partly because of time zone differences (sending a message to the team and waiting a day for the reply and so on) and the fact that the people who wrote the code usually aren't around to maintain it. I'm sorry you got laid off.