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This hits hard: "Of course by customizing their “product” we cleverly combined all the downsides of vendor software with all the downsides of custom software.
by gadders 2y ago
This hits hard:
"Of course by customizing their “product” we cleverly combined all the downsides of vendor software with all the downsides of custom software. We simultaneously achieved the holy grail of bad ideas: an inflexible vendor package that would have to be forced into doing something it wasn’t designed to do but would also be forked from their main product codebase - guaranteeing sooner or later it would be end-of-lifed once the vendor realized how expensive it was to keep maintaining."
Don't ever do this if you can avoid it. Quite apart from the tech angle, the vendor will also rip you off for every change.
- xyst 2y agoI have worked at companies where they were okay with getting “ripped off”. Most firms would rather farm out the work to vendors since they often have high turn over and rely on low paid contractors. Knowledge is lost repeatedly every quarter. It was at that point I realized I was in the wrong business. Find a whale, hook them on a product, book many hours of after work (squeeze them when a quarter is light or need to pump the books)
- DanielHB 2y agoA lot of enterprise software requires so much customizing by design. I call it the "army of consultants problem"
- CRConrad 2y agoA) SAP (at least here in Europe). B) You misspelled "conslutants".