No matter whether you are a fan of the new Batman movies, they do have a lot of cool "toys". Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, through his many companies custom builds all of those cool toys. Bruce Wayne is worth billions so he can afford to build anything he can think up.
We in the multivalued world cannot afford to do this, but we do anyway. You can continually see that with everyone building this tool or that tool to do what Unidata and Universe do not offer. Somewhere on the Internet there was talk of the "dead" multivalued tools such as Cubic, Redback IDE, Toad, and APT are the ones that come to mind. We know of a lot of others, but the point is that they were all built on proprietary code and environments.
We are just a guilty as the rest of the industry. There is one important difference: we use open source. All of our XLr8 Tools and our middle-ware U2Weblink incorporate some or all open source. Then, we have to write a piece or two of code to talk to our database usually in Java through UniObjects for Java. For example, we use Eclipse, jabsorb, log4j, quartz, and many Java libraries.
What open source would we find in your applications or tools? Probably none because it is that not invented here mentality. We multivalued programmers must start embracing the open source world more and more if you want to compete effectively and have technology that is not stagnating.
In the next Batman movie when you hear bad guy say "Twitter me this, Batman", you heard it first.
