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Re:Why is it hard to buy things that work well? by Aeolun on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:24PM (#30680742)
> he'll use the same tone for something he's seen anecdotally and something he's spent a month personally investigating

At least the parts about build vs buy sound extremely familiar to me. Setting up and integrating something you’ve bought often takes as much or more time than building it yourself.

The best argument for buying is that you’d make all stakeholders equally unhappy.

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Re:Why is it hard to buy things that work well? by andrewingram on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:47PM (#30680875)
Reminds me of hiring an in-house team of Salesforce engineers to build out and maintain the hugely expensive CRM you bought because you… didn’t want to spend engineering time on a CRM.
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Re:Why is it hard to buy things that work well? by hallway_monitor on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:45PM (#30681177)
The new CTO getting drunk on sales Kool aid and deciding to move many functions to Salesforce was a strong signal of incompetence at a previous workplace.
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