Your app made someone over at the IT dept feel inadequate. Remember, some older IT person is trying to protect their job, no matter how crappy they're doing it. Your app, as you had mentioned, was much better than the one that they made.
This, unfortunately, is the way the world is. Think about patent trolls, incumbents suing start ups that threaten to shake up the industry, etc.
The way they all sat you down (quite literally like going to the principal's office) was simply bullying.
Keep your chin up and look beyond this. This app is not the fight worth expending energy fighting for.
Your app made someone over at the IT dept feel inadequate. Remember, some older IT person is trying to protect their job, no matter how crappy they're doing it. Your app, as you had mentioned, was much better than the one that they made.
This, unfortunately, is the way the world is. Think about patent trolls, incumbents suing start ups that threaten to shake up the industry, etc.
The way they all sat you down (quite literally like going to the principal's office) was simply bullying.
Keep your chin up and look beyond this. This app is not the fight worth expending energy fighting for.