Research
Evidence-first writing on the systems decisions companies actually face. Sources traced, vendor numbers labeled, weak statistics thrown out.
$10 : $1
is the market value associated with a dollar of computer capital in large firms, against a dollar of other tangible assets. What gets priced is the organization built around the technology.
Brynjolfsson, Hitt and Yang, 2002
14%
of small EU enterprises employ any ICT specialist, against 78% of large ones. Between ten and forty nine employees, the people to build internally are mostly not there.
Eurostat, 2025
65%
of widely used open-source systems depend on one or two people. A system survives its builder only when you own the code, the infrastructure and the documentation. We contract accordingly.
Avelino et al., 2016
Off the shelf, in-house, or built for you
What the evidence says about how companies should acquire their systems.
June 2026 · 36 min read