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Google's A Do-It-Yourselfer. Should You Be Too?

While most companies use packaged applications and off-the-shelf hardware, Google makes extensive use of in-house engineering. They customize Linux, write their own applications -- even develop their own programming language and filesystem. Should businesses follow Google's example and become do-it-yourselfers?

Yes

57%

No. Companies should tend to their core competencies, and leave software and hardware engineering to the experts.

43%

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