[cageface]

From what I've seen some clients like the control that building everything gives them. In practice this control might be illusory because of course they don't have the budgets to replicate everything they'd get from a big ERP package but NIH syndrome is certainly not exclusive to tech people.

[David]

Excellent point. A fear we see a lot in clients is that if the system's not built from scratch with them in mind, it can't do what they need. But the TCO of a system you build yourself is usually way higher than anticipated, due to project overruns and maintenance costs. It turns out software development isn't trivial, which is why we have companies that just build software.