The hidden costs of building on enterprise software platforms
Software development has come a long way over the last few decades. We’ve gone from extremely laborious, protracted exercises to create even basic functionality (punch cards anyone?), to the drag and drop, WYSIWYG environment of today. We’ve also gone from a very small number of enthusiast programmers to literally millions of individuals writing software worldwide (there were over 1.3 million software engineers [http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm] in the US alone in 2008). And we’re all looking...