One of these days I hope to bump into the idiot who invented the phrase ‘Best of Breed’, preferably in a dark alley. Thanks to that glorious figure of speech, every IT department has been condemned into perpetually gluing the latest and greatest pieces of software together to produce an immaculate whole.
Call me mean-spirited but ‘Best of Breed’ conjures up images of the finest racehorses, Crufts-winning pooches and, er, giant cows which McDonald’s would be proud of. It does not translate into the heavily scarred, Frankenstein’s monster that we all have lurking behind our PC desktops.
