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Obviously FogBugz did it themselves because they are the most highly documented sufferers of NIH syndrome.
by DannoHung 17y ago
Obviously FogBugz did it themselves because they are the most highly documented sufferers of NIH syndrome.
- DenisM 17y agoThey are? I know they used VNC for their remote help thingie. What's the charge?
- btn 17y agoWriting their own language/compiler surprised a lot of people: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html
- zaphar 17y agoWhy? It worked. It solved a problem they had. And they are successful as a business. It's only surprising if you think their problem was a non-issue. Sometimes NIH just means your doing something no-one else has a solution for. Google gets accused of NIH quite a bit too but when your serving billions of requests per second you find issues with libraries, frameworks and services that no one else sees. It's not NIH when you are solving a problem no one has solved or at least solved and made publicly available.
- mahmud 17y agoBig Soft is the most highly documented. Sun, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft .. those guys do it all in-house. Fogcreek is Joe Nobody in terms of software; they're like a CGI extra from LotR trying to walk the red carpet at Cannes. They are not even close to "highly documented"; someday they will get there, but not today.