alt Hacker News"Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"
This is still true today. Gartner makes a living out of it. Always prefer buying the "familiar" product rather than being successful with the right solution.
Fortunately history show that those who do their math right actually end up being extremely successful: Google using linux HW for their DB servers, AWS developing their own network equipment and protocols, etc. It takes guts but when it works it leaves competition years behind.
Well, in Quebec, the driver's insurance agency (SAAQ) decided to go with SAP and the major bosses were fired.
The cost of the migration was supposed to be 500millions $ and it's now estimated at 1.1 billion $.
But, they weren't fired because of SAP, they were fired because they lied to the government about the true cost.