> In all of my time as an engineering manager, the number of times that avoiding vendor lock in has solved more problems than it caused is still zero.
How long have you stuck around to find out? Never had to undertake a massive task to migrate an existing system that's closely bound to its legacy platform? Because that's the other side of the coin.
I also highly suspect that number is not zero, you're just not counting the obvious decisions people make every day that avoid lock-in because they seem like common sense. But I suspect you're not building everything using ColdFusion, though, or doing your version control through Perforce...
> Use the best tools available at your disposal to get the job done.
Behind this phrase lies the fallacy that there is any such thing as "the best tool" and the implication that anyone doing anything different is a clear idiot. In reality, everyone uses "the best tool", it's just they have different metrics by which they measure it.
How long have you stuck around to find out? Never had to undertake a massive task to migrate an existing system that's closely bound to its legacy platform? Because that's the other side of the coin.
I also highly suspect that number is not zero, you're just not counting the obvious decisions people make every day that avoid lock-in because they seem like common sense. But I suspect you're not building everything using ColdFusion, though, or doing your version control through Perforce...
> Use the best tools available at your disposal to get the job done.
Behind this phrase lies the fallacy that there is any such thing as "the best tool" and the implication that anyone doing anything different is a clear idiot. In reality, everyone uses "the best tool", it's just they have different metrics by which they measure it.