[cryptoboy2283]

> Let’s say your company pays for 215 software products that cost us $420,000 a year to own and use. Nobody would object to somebody looking at that list of software finding redundancies and canceling those licenses.

That's simply not true. Big companies have special vendor management departments, their incentives are literally built around cost optimizations. Smaller startups have CEO looking at their billing and complaining about "why do we pay so much to vendor X?", check the most recent rant by DHH on Datadog:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357726

[warkdarrior]

I think you and the author are in violent agreement.