In America, the Negro properly be called "African-American." Political correctness - a pledge of mutual respect and non-judgmental attitude.

In developing the IT strategy, choosing IP and IT architecture design, instead of the phrase "samopisanny soft" and "kolenochnaya development" should be used "custom software" or "proprietary software". For brevity, in an informal context, you can also use "their software."
Instead of "standard solutions" to use "packaged solutions", "ready-made software products." Software developed for sale to many customers, not the "standard". Standard - a standard, and any ready-made software solution - just an attempt to separate the manufacturer to implement a set of standards and their own ideas. Neither the-shelf software is not a "standard" in the strict sense of the word.
Use the correct terms will not be mixed economic model of software development and quality.

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• Lost in Translation
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