It has long been my experience, in all things - not just software, that Cheap is usually more costly then Expensive.

Now that may seem a bit backward, but if you cough up the money in the begining and do it right the first time, then you save money in the long run. Take, for example, a POS car you see for sale for less then 1000 USD!!!, wow, right? No. You could spend ten times that, buy a new car (with a warranty) that will last ten times longer with less need for repair. So which car really costs more? Now I understand... that sometimes you just need a junk car because you only need it for a year while you wait for your long lost rich uncle to die and leave you a couple million. But how often does that really work out?

I've written scripts that only needed to do a simple thing and would be thrown away shortly... They are still in use long after their experation date.

In reply to RE: Good, Fast, Cheap: pick the last two or get out! by Adam
in thread Good, Fast, Cheap: pick the last two or get out! by jeffa

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