How often do I see people metaphorically trying to use a car tire on bicycle with thee excuse of not re-inventing the wheel. There can be great benefits for the parts of your system to be tailor made to work together.
- wheels that force you to do things that way the maker wants, instead of the way that suits you;
- wheels that are fine going downhill ... but nowhere else;
- wheels require you to attach an ever more expensive widget;
- wheels that promise but never quite deliver;
- wheels that keep pushing you into services that you just know are going to be a pain.
Often your own wheel is the best.
- A Formula 1 wheel when all you need is a bicycle wheel, but the person in charge of choosing wheels chooses it on the basis of “if we want to be as good as Formula 1, then we need to use the same wheels as Formula 1”