It is never a black or white question, the famous 'rewrite or reuse'. Here's a good essay that can give food for thought http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
Bernard, you have my blessings then to do it as you see fit (not that you needed them in the first place :-) I have understood your perspective perfectly.
Steve, not that I mind creating stuff from scratch, but i belong to the school of programming where the mantra "don't reinvent the wheel" is a bit strong, which leads to lazy developers who piggy-back on the efforts of others.
Skunks who are familiar with the ISV marketplace locally could have some interesting perspectives though, Peter Muchemi??