[ladams]

Is it? Every large company has a well compensated CTO whose job it is to think through these sorts of hypotheticals. But “nobody gets fired for choosing Microsoft”, and so the monopoly continues…

[ajb]

"A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him"

[H8crilA]

The worst part is that very poor diversification / groupthink is exactly what creates financial bubbles and financial crises. We seem to be reaching that uncomfortable too-big-to-fail scale in computing / cyber security.

[dredmorbius]

JMK: <https://www.greatsayings.net/john-maynard-keynes-sayings/a-s...>

[smt88]

Some of my large enterprise clients require us to use Microsoft too, so that decision can radiate outward beyond large, conservative companies.