Comment by tonyedgecombe
Comment by tonyedgecombe 13 hours ago
>Probably the best we'll do is some kind of hack, like making the programming parts of an organization work differently from the rest. Perhaps the optimal solution is for big companies not even to try to develop ideas in house, but simply to buy them.
I remember the CTO of a big American bank telling me they didn't want to develop any software in-house. Their plan was to buy everything in. At the time I thought it was rather strange but having dealt with a lot of enterprise software since then I can see why.
>I remember the CTO of a big American bank telling me they didn't want to develop any software in-house. Their plan was to buy everything in. At the time I thought it was rather strange but having dealt with a lot of enterprise software since then I can see why.
It's a very pragmatic choice for the majority of business use cases. It should be more common imo, but some execs enjoy the empire building aspect and underestimate TCO when looking at cheap offshore dev resources.