Like all software development companies my workplace out sources some part of the development. The grapevine says you cannot get funded today unless you show how you are cutting costs using outsourcing.

My component interacts with a component that was out sourced. Today was spent banging my head against the following error thrown by the out sourced component

"External Error"

The operation was successful

I wanted to write the developer of the component an email and ask him if he found successful operations so rare that he flagged them as errors