> On the other hand, the language chosen might ensure high turnover of the sorts of coders you'd really like to keep, assuming you could ever attract them in the first place.
I'm sure Bell Labs never had that problem :) I was reading someone's PhD dissertation on Chill [1] and what was interesting to note was how many of the players ended up outsourcing their software development to 3rd parties.
Software is hard.
There other day I was talking with someone in tech management from a national chain (think malls). They are rolling their own commerce platform since "nothing" out there can satisfy their ecommerce requirements. I didn't say this upfront -- a potential client -- but the idea that this chain will actually get into serious software development, develop an A team, and keep them, is complete and utter wishful thinking.
My advice to anyone running a non-tech company is own the data and the apis and off load the rest to a[n] actual tech company.
I'm sure Bell Labs never had that problem :) I was reading someone's PhD dissertation on Chill [1] and what was interesting to note was how many of the players ended up outsourcing their software development to 3rd parties.
Software is hard.
There other day I was talking with someone in tech management from a national chain (think malls). They are rolling their own commerce platform since "nothing" out there can satisfy their ecommerce requirements. I didn't say this upfront -- a potential client -- but the idea that this chain will actually get into serious software development, develop an A team, and keep them, is complete and utter wishful thinking.
My advice to anyone running a non-tech company is own the data and the apis and off load the rest to a[n] actual tech company.
[1]: http://web.bi.no/forskning/papers.nsf/0/42215f66b6282965c125...