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Originally Posted by wildthing View Post
Is there no off-the-shelf (or off-the-cloud) application that can do 80% of what your software does?

This is one of the arguments against custom development. You lose your talent, you lose your support.

Unless there's something very specific to your business that you just can't live without, I'd look at something that you can buy turn-key with maybe relatively minor configuration changes, as opposed to a complete build.
Pretty sure there will be a well supported open source solution that would do what he needs.

I'm a big fan of OS as it provides access to an endless supply of talent on an as needed basis and the communities in general are supportive of newbs and will freely share knowledge which at the end of the day helps people like Cash become independent if they want to free themselves and take control.

We build as much stuff as possible using OS.
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