Have you ever burned your hands by some new and immature technology?

Question

I often hear people saying you shouldn\'t rush into adopting new technologies until they have become stable, tried and tested. There is even a joke on how it takes 3 versions to

Answer 1

The worst is when you get 80% through a project using a new product and hit a showstopper bug.

Back in the mid-80s my boss suggested I try a new dBase alternative called KnowledgeMan. It was far along when I realized that some crucial bugs I thought were mine were actually theirs. The whole thing had to be redone from scratch; it cost me my job.