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9 app dev projects you should cancel in 2013

Rolling your own in software wastes both time and money

By Andrew C. Oliver, InfoWorld, 12/20/12

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1. Your custom content management system
The world has enough content management systems. They come in many different forms: Some are Drupal-like, some are Interwoven Teamsite-/Adobe CQ-like monsters, and some are SharePoint-like. Some even unite the three approaches (Alfresco, for example). They are all somewhat similar. To quote Tyler Durden: You are not special. Any CMS you implement will turn into one of these three types. Your company most likely does not have content so unique that it won't fit into one of them. At most, you might need to customize or modernize an open source implementation. Making your own CMS is so '90s!

Don't roll your own!

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