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It'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.
by brianberns 7y ago
It'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.