[vortico]

My suggestion is to convince your company (or if you own the company, simply take action) to use a particular open source software package. As soon as you run into a feature you need but the package does not offer, take some time to develop on top of it (on company time or at home) instead of writing your own hacky in-house solution, using a more careful development process than your company's software. Develop it until it is used in production, and donate the feature to the project. This way, if it is not wanted or ignored, it will still benefit you or your company.