Do you decide to use a certain technology because it is better or do you decide to use a certain technology because your company already is using this product and has some experience with it?
What is nepotism anyway?
From Wikipedia
Nepotism is favoritism granted in politics or business to relatives regardless of merit. The term originated with the assignment of nephews to cardinal positions by Catholic popes and bishops. Nepotism is found in the fields of politics, entertainment, business and religion.
Looking at that, we can then easily say that you picked technology A because you favor it, it is easier for you to use, you don’t have to learn another thing, even though the other technology might be better for the job. Maybe your shop standardized on a technology stack and you are not allowed to use anything else.
Luckily in my job I don’t have such restrictions, I can use SQL Server, if MongoDB is better we might use that and if Hadoop is the way to go then that is what we will use instead
What about you and your company, do you have a technology stack that has to be used or are you free to explore other technologies? Are there restrictive policies and standards in place that makes this very difficult. Of course picking something non standard can cause problems down the road, what if you decided to use Silverlight instead of HTML 5…guess who has a problem now?
Denis has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. Although he worked as an ASP/JSP/ColdFusion developer before the dot com bust, he has been working exclusively as a database developer/architect since 2002. In addition to English, Denis is also fluent in Croatian and Dutch, but he can curse in many other languages and dialects (just ask the SQL optimizer) He lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and three kids.
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“What about you and your company, do you have a technology stack that has to be used or are you free to explore other technologies? Are there restrictive policies and standards in place that makes this very difficult. Of course picking something non standard can cause problems down the road, what if you decided to use Silverlight instead of HTML 5…guess who has a problem now?”
You obviously are privy to our dark inner workings. We have IT shops at two locations. Caught squarely in the middle of a Java vs PHP war. No standards in place, and no one wants to learn the “other” technology. Don’t even get me started on legacy apps written in VB4 – VB6 that are crying out to be ported to .NET…
I suffer from lots of things, not sure this is one of them.