[tschellenbach]

Companies try to build everything in-house. I'm an engineer, and I'm quilty of this myself, but often we just love building things. If you build too many things you eventually lose focus. Maintenance becomes harder, upgrading software becomes harder, team members eventually leave. Turns out that everyone loves building, but nobody wants to maintain someone else's software, so you throw some duct tape around it.

I think the solution is to build less and reuse more.