8 Dec
2008
8 Dec
'08
4:57 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I can see the academic nature of rolling your own, and I can see the
money aspect.
However, if the existing solution is open source, I think the latter
reason disappears. I suppose the former is still valid, though
Jim
I'm
curious as to why one would do that? Is it really quicker to
design, implement, test, maintain, support something on your own rather
than use a pretested application/utility?
Jim
Sometimes there are real advantages to rolling your own. You know what it
does, you have full control over the data, and if you're a good enough
programmer, it does exactly what you want. Other times the reasons boil
down to $$$'s.