&gt; She sets up a hosted blog so nobody has to actually maintain it.<p>Somebody has to maintain a Wordpress blog, keeping it updated and the plugin list pruned to reasonability. That somebody may be the end user, but a non-technical user maintaining a piece of business-critical software carries its own set of problems.<p>Someone years ago at my company solved this problem by integrating Wordpress into their own home-baked e-commerce platform. The platform wasn&#x27;t maintained, Wordpress wasn&#x27;t maintained, when I came in years later, I found a mess that wasn&#x27;t even worth maintaining anymore. Eventually it broke. I refused to fix it and so we moved to hosted Wordpress just like Alice.<p>My solution would have been to find a Rails-based self-hosted blogging platform that I could integrate into my daily workflow. I told them I wouldn&#x27;t be able to help them if Wordpress breaks and that Wordpress gets hacked all the time. I could have gotten it up in a single day, no big deal. No dice.<p>Company politics and strategy determine how productive a programmer is. Make him&#x2F;her do stupid shit and they won&#x27;t get much done. They say they don&#x27;t want silos, but then all their technology decisions do is create silos.