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OCR: 578 SECTION CHAPTER 10 What software alternatives are available? The project team might FIGURE 10-31 consider software alternatives, such as whether to construct the system Software Alternatives from scratch in a programming language, use an application development tool, purchase commercial software or select turnkey system Figure 10-31) Creating an information system from scratch using a programming lan- guage can take many months or years It is usually costly, but offers the most flexibity for meeting the system requirements. As an analogy, baking cake from -margarine scratch allows of you some for flexibility example in the ingredients you Pros Programming Can be exactly Language tailored to choose instead shortening, However, baking from scratch requires lot time and work to sift the f ...