If the company is unable to buy back the data-processing facilities, it will have to buy new equipment and hire a new data-processing staff, often at prohibitive costs. Blue Cross of California decided that the performance of its outsourcer, EDS, was so poor that it would end the agreement. However, when blue Cross started to initiate the change it knew virtually nothing about its system and could not afford to discharge EDS. It contrast, LSI Logic terminated its agreement with IBM and brought its system back in-house at significant dollar and personnel savings when it installed an ERP system.