Re: Insurance may have to eat more of it
What that fix it yourself parameter means, is that every little shop has to be entirely responsible for it's own code, and most companies need support behind them in case systems go wrong, and every company cannot afford, and might have trouble keeping, support staff with enough real talent to be in control of things. Regardless how much you pay your people there is no guarantee they will stay to support the systems they have grown to know every wrinkle of ! Every new person has to start all over again, assuming great documentation - that might be ok but for most places that is just not true ! There is a reason companies buy ready-made packages instead of writing their own !!! I'm long since retired, but my last contribution to my company was sales pull software I wrote for their numerous stores, which worked wonderfully, which was decided after examining the existing ready-made packages out there, none of which did quite what we needed ! The problem was no other programmer wanted to get involved with this system because they knew just how crucial it was to the orderly running of the company's backend systems. I put together a big online training manual & trained several people who promptly left to less stressful positions, programmers loving to code, but not loving too much responsibility for logging in at night to fix any problems ! I loved my job, loved my system (of course) which was very recoverable from almost any stage of the process, deliberately built that way, yet still others balked at learning enough to allow me to retire !. I eventually had to retire for health reasons at 72, and others HAD to get involved in spite of their reluctance. I'm sure there were a few pissed off puppies, but the company still operates & I presume they are not carting bags of print around to sort out their problems ! So, much as I loved what I produced, it is a better idea to use software packages with support where you can do that, altho you still need to train people on such packages ! .I really do not see the advantages in going with the Linux fix it yourself parameters.