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sam_lowry_yesterday at 8:37 AM1 replyview on HN

I work for a government institution and I assure you that we have more than 20 vendors for IT.


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constantcryingyesterday at 9:00 AM

Of course. But your basic IT system, presumably, is a Microsoft system. On top of that you are deploying many more systems, for all the kinds of different use cases.

If you replaced that Microsoft system right now you would have to find individual vendors for each of the parts that Microsoft provides. Getting them together would be a huge nightmare, because even the basics do not work.