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_ « if you can not afford to buy it, you certainly can not afford to build it »_ To eager business leads saying that a software or service is too expensive and

• beagle3 6y ago
  That's been quite false in my experience - quite a few times it was much easier / simpler / cheaper to build than buy, because there wasn't an offering good enough, and the cost of adaptation was on the order of the cost of building. Many SAP and Oracle-software (not the DB, the other stuff) implementations fail, and take years to do so, after costing as much as building in house would have (and likely succeeded). For some things, it's true - but I wouldn't consider this "generally applicable wisom"