Buy x Build (software)

Great quote from DeMarco in the very well analyzed post The Buy-vs-Build Shift (part 1):
In 1982 Tom DeMarco opened his hugely influential book on Software Engineering with the line “you can’t control what you can’t measure”. Interestingly, in an IEEE paper in 2009[2] he writes: “For the past 40 years [...] we’ve tortured ourselves over our inability to finish a software project on time and on budget. But as I hinted earlier, this never should have been the supreme goal. The more important goal is transformation, creating software that changes the world or that transforms a company or how it does business.”

However, he thinks that framework are a good substitute for a components market, which looks like it make sense until you realize that using a framework means loosing the universal machine paradigm. Loosing the programmability.

On the other side, I fully agree with him when he writes that "It seems that even if software development was not a core competency for most companies it is rapidly becoming strategically important for many to make software development a core competency."