Brief: Buy, Don't Build - What Does That Mean for a Software Developer?
Todd Little, M. Ahsan Rahi, Craig Sinclair · Journal of Petroleum Technology · 1995
Summary The buzz phrase of the 1990's for the petroleum software industry has become "buy, don't build." For an end user in an oil company, this generally means acquiring application software rather than developing it internally. The concept of buy, don't build can also apply for a software developer. Purchasing software toolkit components can expedite the development of an application as well as reduce future support requirements.