You will not be wasting your valuable time on something which had already been WELL DONE . Your time is extremely precious and it must be utilized efficiently, because you have only 8 hours a day for doing work. As we will be entering the 21st century, there will be a change in the way that you get software for your use. Everybody will give first preference for the open source softwares like PostgreSQL, Linux. If you buy binaries, you will not get any equity and ownership of source code.
Source code is a very valuable asset and binaries have no value.
Buying software may become a thing of the past. You only need to buy good hardware, it is worth spending money on the hardware and get the software from internet. Important point is that it is the computer hardware which is doing bulk of the work . Hardware is the real work horse and software is just driving it. Design and manufacturing of computer chips is a advanced technology.