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The most amusing thing about companies' technology budgets is their fear of price tags. Pay for Enterprise support for that open source product? Way too expens
by peterwwillis 7y ago
The most amusing thing about companies' technology budgets is their fear of price tags.
Pay for Enterprise support for that open source product? Way too expensive, no way.
Pay for 5 engineers in completely separate teams to badly implement, partially support, and later replace part of the Enterprise features as proprietary extensions over 2-3 years, while company's actual product languishes without the functionality it could have used? Take my money.
Meanwhile, keep paying for SaaS and proprietary software, because there's no alternative, supposedly.
- brianberns 7y agoIt's because the engineers are on staff and you're paying them anyway. Trying to justify a separate purchase, even if would be cheaper on paper, is way harder.
- dotancohen 7y agoThat, and NIH. I've literally last week told my project manager that the better business decision would be to buy the very software that I'm developing. There is more than enough work for me to do already. But the broader picture requires us to develop in-house. I don't mind, I'm learning something new. I suppose that in itself adds value to the company.
- peterwwillis 7y ago> I don't mind, I'm learning something new. I suppose that in itself adds value to the company. It would if the information got imbued back into the rest of the company, but it most often manifests as domain experts, who when they go away, someone else has to learn the thing all over again.