I have to admit I was very pleasantly surprised to see a job posting just the other day that called for a custom developer...it said clearly NOT OOTB. I hadn't seen one in a long, long time. It's not so much that I'm against the OOTB solution -- it's that I'm an old school "Business your way," "Make the tool conform to your business...not make your business conform to your tool" thinker (which people here, I'm sure, are painfully aware of!).
-----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Gellenbeck Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Buy vs. Build ** Am I the only one seeing a resurgance of contacts seeking experienced custom-build expertise vs. install/configure/maintain/integrate folks? I know BMC's pie in the sky goal is minimal need for customizations vs. configuration/data changes, but there seems to be a growing backlash against this McDonald's approach. I'm only asking this of the group to see if this trend is bigger than my areas of engagement over the last couple years. Sure, there will always be needs for folks to step in an make customizations here and there, but I'm suprised now at the number and the scope of custom-build-from-scratch projects I'm getting proposals/recruiters for compared to the past. Has ITSM mis-stepped in its later releases or is it that the customer growth for the engine and those upgrading has somewhat de-coupled from ITSM along the way? Have that many old-school custom-builders disappeared? Send me your thoughts directly if you feel the board wanting to stay focused on troubleshooting threads... Ray Gellenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
