I wanted to write this post for several months now, just because of my own experiences and also what I hear more and more from my network. The executive summary sentence goes something like this: "We are again making our own software". What I'm implying with "again" is the fact that throughout the 90s - with client-server, a lot of the software at large companies was built in-house by their own software teams. I'm seeing somewhat of a resurgence of this development but it hasn't come to the large enterprises (yet), it has started with regular people, trying to create their own software for various reasons. For me, it was a combination of cost and gap - for example, I just couldn't find a simple CRM tool that fulfilled my somewhat limited needs, so I wrote my own. Or for years I've been longing for a PFM software package that could reconcile all my accounts - domestic and foreign, it simply doesn't exist for my needs, so I wrote my own PFM. I...