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in reply to Re: Re: Re: SAS vs Perl?
in thread SAS vs Perl?
I completly agree, his question infrenced that he already was thinking about the "other side of the coin" I was just stating that it may be worth while to look at the total cost for a home brew solution. On of the other things that may influence you on comercial product vs home brew is the transition path to new technologies -- many comercial apps will have competitors that offer migration tools to move to their products and new technologies -- on the other hand home brew solutions that have to migrate to new technologies leave your org holding the bag. as a referance here look at all of the legacy home brew systems in the corperate world today, many could have been kept up to date and talking with other current applications by sticking with purchased product. My whole point behind this is that you just have to weigh the whole cost/benefit for a decision like this -- it could go either way depending on the situation and org that you work for.
-Waswas
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