Talk:Independent software vendor
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Off the record, ISVs tend to produce low-quality code, for several reasons:
- Insufficient competition within their niche; they are often the "only game in town".
- ISV programmers tend to be more skilled and knowledgeable about their niche than about programming.
- They tend to be conservative pragmatists, sometimes highly regulated. If COBOL has kept the banking system working for the last 30 years, why expend the resources and accept the liability to change it?
- Smaller markets tend to imply smaller profits (either by thinner margins or fewer sales), so less money can be invested in payroll, training, developer tools, and hardware.
— Brianary 16:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
