I do agree with in-house development being potentially cheaper.

After almost two years of in-house development, Blimpie launched Pasta Central in 1999.

Some companies however continue to do in-house development and maintenance of dashboard applications.

The hope comes from it being an in-house development.

In 2002 the company started in-house development of instant win games.

AM was widely used by Financial institutions worldwide as a client/server development tool for in-house development.

The Wii had mostly relied on first-party titles to sell systems until 2009 when in-house development could not keep up with demand for new material.

Later and continuing in-house development cured much of this quickly, as well as new injectors from the 2004 models onwards.

The key point about in-house development is that once it's "good enough," you stop.

And in addition to in-house development Blur has also joined forces with several accomplished directors and writers to develop feature films.