And frankly the "(or even almost as well)" is just wrong. I can't count how many times I've seen projects fail due to trying to shoehorn the problem into some existing solution because the NIH syndrome was so strong. Really if at first glance it looks like a perfect fit, it isn't, but you might get it to work. If right off you can see how it is not quite a fit, don't think you can make it work because you are most probably wrong. It will either fail outright or end up being way more work than if you had just solved it with custom code.
