Time to market
The finance business is all about information handling; unlike most modern big businesses, they employ legions of developers to build applications in-house ... My messages: ... no matter how maniacally focused on performance you are, you can’t ignore the time-to-market advantages we’re seeing from modern Web frameworks; if my app gets to market before yours, it just might not end up mattering that yours runs faster on the same hardware.—Tim Bray, ongoing