Well...yes and no. For example, page scraping is something I have been pricing recently. The companies I have spoken to cost WAY more than it would cost me to b

Well...yes and no. For example, page scraping is something I have been pricing recently. The companies I have spoken to cost WAY more than it would cost me to build...because I need one simple solution with limited accuracy...but their company is built around an advanced high accuracy solution. The off the shelf thing is rarely the simplest thing possible, because once they built that they had to keep adding features and engineers and costs :)