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Council Post: Build Vs. Buy: Why Most Businesses Should Buy Their Next Software Solution

Certainly, there are some business environments that require a 100% custom solution, built from the ground up by internal resources.

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I think most of the articles that advocate for buy vs. build actually offer quite bad advice, and dramatically downplay the disadvantages
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There’s not many out there but interesting to see the different perspectives
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Replying to @patkua
They always remind me of hbr.org/2003/05/it-doesnt-ma… – a piece I consider to be the worst IT advice ever (and a favorite of mine to illustrate that very smart people are sometimes very wrong)

Sep 14, 2020 · 6:44 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @patkua
The author was right in one point: IT, as it was in a typical enterprise of the year 2003, was a commodity b/c an enterprise was still a bunch of people supported by computers. Today, an enterprise is a system of apps, supported by a bunch of people.
Replying to @stilkov @patkua
I considered this article to be wrong for all the right reasons The comparison with electricity is IMHO quite fitting (as far as I remember) Companies which highly dependency on electricity (e.g steel, car factories, ...) commonly have their own power plants.
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