Pure Play Maintenance Costs Consuming IT Budgets?

ContractualObligatio asks: "The Register asks the question of whether businesses are at risk of having no budget to develop code, from maintaining too many 'pure play' applications. What has the experience been among Slashdot readers? Are people spending too much time maintaining code and integrations because the business is adopting too many applications? Do IT teams have the time and money to actually improve and innovate the way their companies do business?"

"Pure play"?

[illuminatedwax]

Yes, I would prefer to have "virtual work" or "hybrid play" in my IT office! See I can make up words too!

Re:One step further

[schematix]

while(time < fiveoclock)

Ahem. Not to be too anal about your code, but this would certainly cause some issues (most notably with disgruntled workers at the office at odd hours.) Perhaps you should add some additional logic such as (time > eightam), (time <> lunchtime), etc.